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| KABUL, Afghanistan — Thursday was another bad day for girls in Afghanistan. | KABUL, Afghanistan — Thursday was another bad day for girls in Afghanistan. |
| Four girls ages 5 to 8 who were at a wedding party in southern Helmand Province went out to fetch water from a hand pump, and as they were carrying the buckets of water back one of the girls stepped on a hidden bomb, which exploded and killed all of them, according to Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor. | Four girls ages 5 to 8 who were at a wedding party in southern Helmand Province went out to fetch water from a hand pump, and as they were carrying the buckets of water back one of the girls stepped on a hidden bomb, which exploded and killed all of them, according to Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor. |
| It was another bad day for boys, as well. Two schoolboys on their way home, ages 10 and 12, tripped a roadside bomb in the Sarawza district of Paktika Province in the east and were killed, according to Mokhlis Afghan, a spokesman for the provincial governor, Muhibullah Samim. | It was another bad day for boys, as well. Two schoolboys on their way home, ages 10 and 12, tripped a roadside bomb in the Sarawza district of Paktika Province in the east and were killed, according to Mokhlis Afghan, a spokesman for the provincial governor, Muhibullah Samim. |
| “Such attacks on civilians, and especially on schoolchildren, show that the sworn enemies of Afghanistan cannot tolerate seeing our children going to school,” Mr. Samim said. | “Such attacks on civilians, and especially on schoolchildren, show that the sworn enemies of Afghanistan cannot tolerate seeing our children going to school,” Mr. Samim said. |
| A recent report by United Nations officials here found an alarming rise in civilian casualties, particularly among children, with more than three-fourths of those casualties attributable to attacks or bombs planted by the insurgents. | A recent report by United Nations officials here found an alarming rise in civilian casualties, particularly among children, with more than three-fourths of those casualties attributable to attacks or bombs planted by the insurgents. |
| Of 3,092 civilian casualties this year through early June, 21 percent of them were children, an increase of 30 percent over the previous year. | Of 3,092 civilian casualties this year through early June, 21 percent of them were children, an increase of 30 percent over the previous year. |
| Thursday was also a bad day for the halting effort to integrate women into Afghanistan’s police forces. One of southern Afghanistan’s few female police officers, Islam Bibi, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle as she was walking in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand. She later died of her wounds at the hospital. Her son-in-law, also a police officer, was wounded in the attack as well, according to Shah Mahmoud Ashna, a spokesman for the police in Helmand. It was the second killing of a female police officer in the past two months. | |
| “The enemy is trying to create an atmosphere of fear, which is why they started this assassination campaign against female police officers,” Mr. Ashna said. | “The enemy is trying to create an atmosphere of fear, which is why they started this assassination campaign against female police officers,” Mr. Ashna said. |