Seven Students were killed during a mortar bomb blast inside a religious school in northern Afghanistan, police said.
“As per initial investigation, the explosion was caused by a mortar that had somehow been carried inside the madrassa,” reports said, Six students were wounded in the explosion in the Ishkamish district of Takhar province.
The incident comes after two deadly blasts this month targeted separate mosques in Kabul.
On Friday, four persons were killed when explosives detonated at a mosque in the capital during weekly prayers, A week earlier a blast at a mosque in the heavily fortified Green Zone killed two people, including a prominent imam.
The latest bloodshed comes as the Taliban and government are preparing to launch much-delayed peace talks aimed at ending the nearly two-decade old conflict in Afhganistan.