A government school building has been set ablaze in Kumdlan village in Shopian district of south Kashmir by a group of terrorists. The school was supposed to hold board exams for students on Saturday.

Terrorists hurled petrol bombs at the school to burn down the establishment.

This is the second incident of a school being set on fire in Kashmir in the past few weeks.

A few days ago, an encounter broke out outside a school in Pulwama where students were appearing for their board examinations. Five students were trapped inside the school when the encounter broke out between a group of terrorists and security forces.

Around 48,000 students of Kashmir division appeared in the annual Annual Regular Examination of Higher Secondary for Class 12 on Wednesday.

This comes a day after Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories on Thursday. Jammu and Kashmir ceased to a state on October 31, three months after the Centre announced its decision to strip the state of its special status.