Militants bomb school in E Afghanistan

KABUL, March 19 -- Anti-government militants bombed a school in Khost province, east of Afghanistan, Thursday damaging the building, a local official said.

"Armed insurgents threw bombs in a school in Nadir Shahkot at 3a.m. local time (2230 GMT) this morning destroying 24 rooms," spokesman of education department in the province Syed Musa Majrohtold Xinhua.

He also added that 415 students including 180 girls had studied in this school.

Militants in the same district destroyed another school last week.

Taliban insurgents whose regime barred girls from going to school and confined women to houses during their six-year reign collapsed in 2001 have often targeted schools in the southern and eastern provinces of Afghanistan.