Airstrike victims said to be children
From Times Wire Reports
Almost all of the 80 victims of last week’s airstrike on an Islamic school in a tribal region near the Afghan border were children or teenagers, Pakistan’s largest Islamic opposition party reported.
The government has described the religious school, or madrasa, in the Bajur tribal district as a terrorist training camp.
But a published list drawn up by the Jamaat-i-Islami party indicated that 13 of the victims were younger than 12 and the youngest was 7.
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