Anti-government militants in the wee hours of Thursday set fire on a school in outskirts of former Taliban strong hold Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan, an official said.
"Armed militants set fire on a school which was used by some 600 boys and girls at around 2:00 a.m. (2130 GMT) in outside of Kandahar city," director of provincial education department Najebullah Ahmadi told Xinhua.
Ahmadi added that local people rushed to the school and stopped the fire hours later .
Dozens of schools have been attacked and destroyed by insurgents over the past couple of years in the war- plagued country where Taliban militants during their six- year regime had banned girls schools and confined women to their houses.
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