Kabul, July 3 (IANS) At least 17 students were injured, two of them critically, in a hand grenade attack on a school in Afghanistan’s Faryab province Sunday, Xinhua reported.
The attack was carried out when students were leaving the school building.
‘A terrorist on a motor bike hurled a hand grenade in front of entry gate of a boys’ school named Ali Shirnawai, in third district of provincial capital Maimana city, at around 12.30 p.m. (local time) Sunday. As a result 17 students were injured,’ said Afghanistan’s interior ministry in a statement.
‘Police have arrested the gunman who committed this,’ the statement added.
Faryab is 425 km north of capital Kabul.
