Afghanistan: Seven students wounded in explosion

Seven students were wounded when a ground mine exploded in front of a school in the Behsud district of the eastern Nangarhar Province, Sunday.

An injured student recalled that he and another student saw a “metal thing” with a phone in it; when his classmate touched it, the mine exploded injuring the boy and six others.

The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called on tribal elders and clerics to assist halting the recent surge of violence, after Kabul alone was hit by 12 suicide bombs within the last month.