Afghan girls face acid attack for attending school

Afghanistan girls still face the brunt for wishing to be educated. In a horrendous incident, three girls were attacked with acid by two men for making their way to school in the Herat province. A CNN report stated that on Saturday, two men on a motorbike threw acid on three girls who were aged between 16 to 18 years.

Head of the education department for the province, Aziz-ul-Rahman Sarwary was quoted as saying that the girls study in one of the biggest girls' schools in Heart. While the girls were initially admitted to the Noor hospital, their parents later took them elsewhere, said the hospital head Jamal Abdul Naser Akhundzada.

The condition of two girls is said to be critical. The girls while narrating the incident to the hospital staff revealed that the perpetrators had yelled at them that it was the punishment for going to school.