The U.N. mission in Afghanistan Monday “strongly condemned" the attacks in the country that killed 12 children. “These attacks resulted in a high number of civilian casualties, with minimal impact on their purported military targets - any such violence is unacceptable, but especially when it involves civilians and even more so when it involves children," said Secretary-General Ban Ki moon's Special Representative to Afghanistan Jan Kubis. “Any attacks which deliberately take place near a school can only be condemned for the heinous attacks that they are," Kubis said in a statement. In the first attack, according to initial reports, a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle detonated his explosives as a convoy of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was passing a nearby boys' high school in the district of Chamkani, in Paktya province. The explosion killed ten boys. In the city of Mihtarlam, the capital of Laghman province, an improvised explosive device was detonated on a roadside, reportedly killing seven members of one family, including four women and two children.
