KANDAHAR -Taleban militants have torched a school in restive southern Afghanistan in the latest attack on the education system, police said on Monday. The incident late on Sunday in Ghazni province comes less than a week after seven schoolchildren were killed and several others wounded in a suspected Taleban rocket attack in the eastern province of Kunar. “Taleban have torched and destroyed a school in Muqur district of Ghazni province,” provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told AFP.The attack was the latest in a string of strikes against educational institutes, schools, teachers and in some cases students in southern and eastern Afghanistan, where the Taleban are most active.
Sarjang said a hunt was under way for the attackers, with suspected Taleban also targeting government officials and troops in the area in the past. “We’re hunting them in several districts,” the police chief said.