Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018: UN agency | World News, The Indian Express

Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018: UN agency | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Kabul |Updated: May 28, 2019 3:05:17 pm

Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018: UN agency

UNICEF also said that Afghanistan's conflict and deteriorating security situation left more than 1,000 schools closed last year and that half a million children were denied their right to education.

According to UNICEF, the number of attacks on schools went from 68 in 2017 to 192 in 2018 — the first time attacks on schools had increased since 2015.

Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018, compared to the year before, in part because militants targeted schools that were used as polling stations in the country’s October parliamentary elections, the United Nations children’s agency said Tuesday.