A teacher in Mingora accidentally shot dead a 12-year-old pupil on Thursday while cleaning his pistol in the staff room, police said. Teachers were given permission to carry firearms in the classroom after Taliban militants massacred 132 students at a school in the city of Peshawar in December. Thursday's deadly incident happened on the outskirts of Mingora, around 180 kilometres (110 miles) north-east of Peshawar.
"Majid Khan, a teacher at the private Sangota Model School was cleaning his pistol in the staff room when it fired a bullet by accident, hitting a student passing through the corridor," local police official Fazl Rabi told AFP. He said the student died on the spot. Saleem Khan Marwat, the area police chief, confirmed the incident and said the teacher had been arrested.
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