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Parents wait to collect their children from a school in the French town of Souffelweyersheim, in the east of France, after an assailant wounded two girls aged six and 11 in a knife attack near the premises. The man was later arrested. The girls' wounds are not deemed serious. IMAGES (VIDI34PP789_EN)
In Vantaa, north of the Finnish capital Helsinki, people pay their respects outside the school where a 12-year-old child opened fire the previous day, killing one classmate and seriously injuring two others, before being arrested. IMAGES
A day after their release, dozens of Nigerian schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen earlier this month, arrive at the Kaduna State Government House ahead of a meeting with the governor of the northwestern state, Uba Sani. The mass abduction in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest attacks on a school in years and sparked a national outcry over insecurity. IMAGES
Cameroon launches the world's first large-scale systematic vaccination campaign against malaria, a "historic step" according to the WHO in the fight against one of the biggest killers of African children. IMAGES
A damning Justice Department report cites "major failures" by Texas police who waited until 21 people had been killed by a mass shooter at a school before finally intervening. Nineteen young children and two teachers were killed when a teenage gunman went on a rampage at Robb Elementary School in May 2022 in America's worst school shooting in a decade. Police eventually shot and killed the gunman. SOUNDBITE
Children play at a UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, where displaced people have taken shelter. Israel said on Monday it had carried out more than 300 strikes on the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, killing dozens, according to the Hamas rulers of the besieged Palestinian territory. IMAGES