Dera Ghazi Khan: Unidentified gunmen attacked a school in Dera Ghazi Khan today and killed a guard, police said, raising fears of a repeat of the deadly Army Public School attack which occurred last year.
The police said that all teachers and children at the high school for boys were safe, although the gunmen had killed a guard.
“We are still not sure how many gunmen there were and whether they are still there. The police are searching,” district police officer Rehmatullah Khan Niazi told journalists.
Meanwhile, today, a top police official of Punjab said that the Dera Ghazi Khan School incident was not related to terrorism.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Punjab, in statement said that it was a personal enmity of the security guard who was shot by his rivals.
A Punjab police spokesman said that students or teachers were not injured in the gun attack.
A spokesman for the Punjab Education department also said that the incident was not an act by terrorists but was related to a personal dispute. He also confirmed that teachers and students remained unhurt in the attack.
The Punjab education ministry has ordered the Executive District Officer (Education) department to submit a report on the incident.