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Unidentified armed men torch school in E. Afghanistan
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, July 15, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – Unidentified armed men
set a school on fire in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, the
provincial government said in a statement Sunday.
“Unknown armed men torched Kiptan Baba Middle School in Bati Kot district
at midnight Saturday. The school building was destroyed and all the documents
and books inside the school building were burned,” the statement said.
More than 800 boy students attended the school.
No group has claimed responsibility, but Taliban and Islamic State (IS)
groups’ militants who are against education are active in the area.
More than 9.5 million Afghan children with around 40 percent of them girls
attend 15,000 schools across the country while over 3.5 million school-age
children have no access to education due to poverty, conflict and insurgency,
according to education officials.
BSS/Xinhua/MSY/1115 hrs