Militants detonated a bomb at a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure, police said Thursday. No one was harmed in the overnight attack.

A media report reveals the destruction of the only private girls' school in a remote North Waziristan village due to explosives, with no casualties.

Gunmen shot and killed seven labourers near southwestern Pakistan's Gwadar port early on Thursday, police said.

The killings occurred near the port city of Gwadar in Baluchistan province, police official Mohsin Ali said. All of the barbers were from Punjab province and lived and worked together. Provincial Interior Minister Ziaullah Langau condemned the killings and said police were investigating who was behind the attack.

Siete barberos murieron baleados antes del amanecer del jueves en una casa de una inestable provincia en el suroeste de Pakistán, según dijeron la policía y un miembro del gobierno.