Suspected militants blew up a private, girls-only school in the North Waziristan district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said Thursday.

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.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed seven labourers near southwestern Pakistan's Gwadar port early on Thursday, police said. Police official Mohsin Ali said the gunmen stormed into a house some 25 km (15 miles) east of the port city and shot and killed the labourers in their sleep.

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.

Seven workers were tragically killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan's Gwadar port city on May 9. The assailants, unidentified gunmen, targeted a residential area near Gwadar Fish Harbour, leaving