L’ordigno è esploso mentre un convoglio di auto con a bordo volontari di Ong internazionali e giornalisti pachistani si dirigeva verso un’altra scuola femminile, a Maidan, per assistere alla cerimonia di riapertura, dopo che era stata distrutta dalla guerriglia

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A boy examines a damaged school caused by Wednesday’s roadside bombing in Shahi Koto, a village of Pakistani district Lower Dir, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The deaths of three American special operations soldiers in the roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan drew unwanted attention to a U.S. program of training local forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida - a little-publicized mission because of opposition here to American boots on Pakistani soil.