Tuesday, February 14, 2012


Afghanistan

Another Girls School Torched In Afghanistan

The Taliban forbid girls to attend school when it was in power (AFP)

May 17, 2006 -- A girls school was set ablaze in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan Province overnight, making it the third such reported attack  in the country in two days.

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There were no reported injuries in the fire bombing attack on the night of May 16-17.

On May 15, a girls school was torched in northern Balkh Province, causing some injuries.

A similar attack on a girls school was reported in central Wardak Province, also on May 15. No injuries were reported in that incident.

These are the latest in a series of attacks on schools and other educational institutions in Afghanistan. Such attacks have been blamed on the Taliban, which banned girls from school during its rule.

(AFP)

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