Save the Children says that schools should be a place of safety for children and never a battlefield
Monsignor Joji Vadakara, Vatican City
Another terrorist attack on a school in Afghanistan claimed fifteen lives. On Wednesday, November 30, an explosion occurred in a madrasa school in Zamangan, northern Afghanistan, killing more than fifteen people and injuring about twenty-five people.
Commenting on the incident, Kayan Salarkia, director of the Afghanistan communication campaign of Save the Children, said that children’s right to education should not be taken away under any circumstances. A Save the Children representative said that schools should be a safe place for children and should never be turned into a battlefield. He noted that children in Afghanistan have been facing severe hardships for the past few months and this is one such attack.
Although it is still unclear who is behind the attack, the armed assailants, who are still armed, have called on children’s rights group Save the Children to stop attacks on education and ensure that children are protected at all times.
Other media reported that children between the ages of nine and fifteen and ordinary people were killed.