Rockets hits Afghan school, six children dead
11/04/2006 - 06:54:22A rocket exploded in the middle of a packed school in eastern Afghanistan today. Six children were killed and 14 other people wounded, police said.
The rocket landed in the yard of Salabagh School in Asadabad, close to a US-led coalition base, said Mohammed Hasan, a police commander in the city in volatile eastern Kunar province, near the Pakistani border.
The wounded, including at least one teacher and the school cleaner, were rushed to a hospital at the base, he said. The bodies of the six dead students were handed over to their parents, who came rushing to the school when they heard the blast.
