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| Afghanistan |
| School Girl Killed in Nangarhar |
| 2014-05-15 |
| [Tolo News] A school girl was killed and six others were maimed as result of a rocket firing in Rodat district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province. The Ministry of Education Department in Nangarhar said the rocket landed in front of Camp Kabuli School when the students were heading home on Tuesday afternoon. According to the provincial officials, a total of three rockets were fired on the district on Tuesday. The officials of the Department of Education in Nangarhar condemned the insurgency attack and further said students should not be targeted anymore. "The education department of Nangarhar condemns the incident and asks these war involved groups to be more considerate of the lives of the civilians, particularly students," Spokesman of the Education Department of Nangarhar, Mohammad Asef Shinwari, said. Just a day after the Nangarhar rocket attack, one civilian was killed and two others maimed in a magnetic kaboom in Kabul city on Wednesday. |
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