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‘They cannot stop us’: Teenage girls hurt in Afghan school blast vow to keep studying | South China Morning Post

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Ruqia Bakhshi was wounded by one of several bombs that detonated in front of her school in Kabul on May 8, 2021. The attack on the Sayed Al-Shuhada girls’ school in a Shia neighbourhood of the Afghan capital killed at least 85 people and left another 147 injured. The school is a high school for girls and boys, who s…

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