Two people including a child were killed and several others injured when a bomb hit a school van in Northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, official sources said.
The sources said that a road side bomb hit the school van in Nasti Kot area, killing its driver and a child. The injured children were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment, according to (Geo News).
The political authorities in the tribal belt said that the school was completely destroyed in the explosion.
Identities of the dead and injured were yet to be known. Pakistan's military has long been battling Taliban and other militant groups in the country's northwester tribal belt.
Hundreds of schools have been blown up in the tribal region by militants opposed to girls' education.