Local residents examine the site of a damaged girls high school, wrecked by suspected militants on early morning, 1 Nov. 2009 in Pakistan's Karigar Garhi villagePakistani officials say militants have blown up a girls' school in the Khyber tribal region.

Officials say several people were wounded in the blast. 

Al-Qaida and Taliban-linked militants who oppose the education of women have destroyed hundreds of girls' schools across the country.

Elsewhere in the northwest, the military said Saturday troops killed 33 militants in the latest operations in the tribal region along the Afghan border.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP.