Afgani Schoolgirls Attacked With Acid

Roughly 1,500 students and teachers stayed home from a Kandahar City school Thursday, a day after attackers threw acid at a group of girls as they walked to class, said the principal.

Mahmood Qaderi, the principal of the Mirwais Minna girls' school, said the attack has left everyone afraid.

Three Afghan girls were seriously burned Wednesday after two men on a motorcycle threw acid on them as they walked to the high school. The girls were walking with five other students.

The Afghan government condemned the attack and blamed the "country's enemies," a reference normally used to describe Taliban militants. Girls were banned from schools under the Taliban's hardline Islamist regime, which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.