PESHAWAR: A girls’ school teacher was gunned down near the town of Jamrud in Khyber tribal district between the northwestern city of Peshawar and the Afghan border, officials said.
The 41-year-old Shahnaz Nazli was on her way to the government girls’ primary school in Shahkas when gunmen fired at her about 200 metres from the school and fled, local government official Asmatullah Wazir said.
“The teacher was killed after unknown gunmen on a motorbike shot her and fled,” Wazir said. Local education officer Mohammad Jadoon Khan confirmed the shooting and death of the teacher.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but militants are particularly opposed to girls’ education in the northwest, where they have bombed hundreds of schools in recent years.
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