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Afghan school attack toll rises
 The death toll in a rocket attack on a primary school yard in Afghanistan has risen to seven young children with more than 30 wounded. Deputy police chief Mohammad Hassan Farahi says two rockets were fired into Asadabad, the capital city of Kunar province, and one hit a school in the grounds of a mosque, killing six students aged between seven and 10. Another child died later in hospital. Thirty-three other children and a teacher were wounded, mostly by shrapnel. The second rocket did not cause casualties.The children were studying in the open because they did not have a school building. It was not clear if the rocket was targeted at the mosque complex, which is close to an Afghan army base and a compound for international troops. Mr Farahi says the rockets were fired from across the border in Pakistan and blamed the attack on the "enemies of Afghanistan", a term Afghan officials often use to refer to remnants of the Taliban regime ousted in late 2001 and their Al Qaeda allies. Taliban fighters were also blamed for another bombing on Tuesday (local time), with five people, including a 10-year-old child, wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Jalalabad city, the capital of Nangarhar province that borders Kunar. The bomb ripped through a station-wagon in a crowded main road about a kilometre from the city centre. Posted by: Fred 2006-04-12 |
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