2 children dead in Nimroz rocket attack

ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Two Madrassa students aged ten and 11 respectively were killed and the third one injured on Monday after a rocket exploded near their Madrassa, officials said.

Mohammad Hashim Noorzai, Khashrod district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the rocket went-off the moment when students were playing with the unexploded device.

The injured child, he said was shifted to a local hospital and he was in stable condition.

Ahmad Saboor, a resident of the locality, said more than 200 students study in the Madrassa. He asked the government to adopt measures to purge the area of unexploded devices.

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