MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - Suspected Taleban insurgents tossed a crude bomb into an Afghan girlsÂ’ classroom, wounding a teacher and five students, a headmaster and police said on Tuesday. | The brave Lions of Islam strike again |
Headmaster Gul Mohammad said a small bomb was thrown through a window into a girlsÂ’ class at his school, in the Chamtol district of the northern province of Balkh, on Monday. A teacher was seriously wounded and five girls were slightly hurt with burns in the attack, he said.
Another school in the district was burned down early on Tuesday after its guards were beaten up, police said. “The Taleban are behind this,” said district police chief Mohammad Hashim, referring to both attacks.
The level of violence in parts of Afghanistan is the worst it has been since the end of Taleban rule in 2001. More than 500 people have been killed this year. The Taleban regularly attack schools as symbols of the Western-backed government and foreign influence. Seven children were killed when a rocket hit a school in an eastern town last month.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Taleban raided two police posts near the Pakistani border, killing two policemen and wounding six. A government office in the same area was also attacked and a woman in a nearby house was wounded, a Khost provincial police spokesman said. Security forces later captured 13 suspected Taleban, including some who were burying a body, he said. | Most likely one of their own |
In the southern province of Helmand, where British forces are in charge of security, police found the beheaded bodies of two government workers who had gone missing last week.
In Ghazni province, just south of the Kabul, a man had his hands blown off and was blinded when a mine he was planting exploded, police said. | I love a story with a happy ending |
A provincial security official said he believed the mine was intended to kill people working on a US-funded road project. |