Two deaths in an attack on a midwifery school in Afghanistan

At least 67 people, including students and teachers, were at the Midwives School of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province when the attack began Saturday morning at 10am

. Nangarhar police chief, Ghulan Sanyee Stanikzai, told AFP that two people – a guard and a driver – had been killed and five others injured before the attack was over at 4 pm .

Inamullah Mikhail, spokeswoman for the Nangarhar Health Department, said 48 women from remote districts were students at a two-year midwifery program at the school. It is located in the center of Jalalabad, in an area where several international organizations and consulates have offices and are funded by the Afghan authorities.

– We do not know why a midwife was attacked, "said Mikhail, groups have so far taken up their responsibilities, but the extremist Islamist group IS has recently been on the sidelines. origin of a series of similar attacks in Jalalabad, where tens of thousands of people were killed.On 11 July, eleven people were killed in an attack on facilities of the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Education