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At least 126 people, most of them children, are killed when Taliban gunmen storm a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years. Mana Rabiee reports.
At least 19 people have been killed and another 50 injured in an attack on a university in Pakistan. According to officials four attackers have been killed.
Primary and secondary schools are closed following restrictions imposed by the authorities in Nigeria's northwestern state of Zamfara a day after 73 students were kidnapped by gunmen in the latest in a series of mass abductions targeting pupils. IMAGES
Distressed parents wait for news of their children after gunmen stormed the Bethel Baptist High School in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria, kidnapping 140 students in the early hours on Monday. IMAGES
Kabul, Nov 2 (EFE/EPA).- At least six people were injured on Monday as a group of militants attacked the University of Kabul, prompting the deployment of extra security forces and forcing hundreds of students to flee from the campus in the Afghan capital, officials said.Public health ministry spokesperson Akmal Samsor told EFE the injured students and lecturers had been evacuated to a hospital.Tariq Arian, an interior ministry spokesperson, said in a statement that “several enemies of Afghanistan” entered the Kabul university campus.“Special forces have arrived,” he said, adding that police had saved several of the trapped students and efforts were underway to rescue all the people holed up inside the besieged campus.SHOT LIST: THE UNIVERITY OF KABUL AFTER THE ATTACK.
Afghan special forces evacuate wounded people after gunmen stormed Kabul University ahead of the opening of an Iranian book fair, firing shots and sending students fleeing. IMAGES