Two schoolteachers were killed in a motorcycle bomb explosion in Damadola area in Mamond tehsil (revenue unit) of Bajaur District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on June 4, reports The News. Locals said that Abdur Rahman, a teacher of a private school and resident of Bara Damadola, and Ismail, a Government schoolteacher and resident of Lar Kanday in Damadola, were going on their bike when met a bomb explosion at a seasonal stream. As a result, the two were killed on the spot. No individual or militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile, an anti-terrorism court of Peshawar on June 5, granted bail to a suspected militant ‘commander’ charged with carrying out a terrorist attack on a checkpost which had left two Police Constables dead in Badhaber area in 2010, reports Dawn. The court accepted a bail petition filed by the suspect, Gul Mat Khan, a resident of Khyber District, who the prosecution claimed was a ‘commander’ of Lashkar-i-Islam (LI). The prosecution alleged that the petitioner along with other militants had attacked Speen Qabar checkpost, which was jointly manned by personnel of Police and Frontier Constabulary, with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers in 2010.