PUL-I-ALAM (SW): Authorities in eastern Logar province said unknown militants torched a middle school for girls near the provincial capital Pul-i-Alam on Wednesday.
According to the provincial department for education, the girls’ school was situated in the Haji Gulon village near Pul-i-Alam that was torched in the wee hours on Wednesday. A statement by the education department added that a number of classrooms, doors, windows, tables, chairs, books and administrative documents have all burned down.
The locals however, acted quickly to save the whole building from being completely burned.
Local officials informed Salam Watandar that some 500 girls were enrolled at the school and the government would try its best to swiftly repair it.
This act of terror and violence against a public property came days after the Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar asked his followers not to damage places for public welfare.
Few days back, similar act of violence was seen in northern Takhar province where the militants distributed warning letters threatening the locals not to send girls to schools.
According to officials in Logar, some 25 girls’ schools have been forcefully closed by the militants in Logar’s restive Baraki Barak and Sarkh districts. No group or individual however, have claimed responsibility for the recent attack.
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