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More than 60 people, mostly girls, are now known to have died in an explosion outside a secondary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. The blast occurred as the children left their lessons. The government blamed the Taliban for the attack, which they denied.

Most people assume that the attack was against girls' education, so will some parents now be too scared to send their daughters to school?

Freshta Karim is an educational consultant living in Kabul who advises the Afghan government on how to improve literacy. She also runs four mobile library buses to allow children to access books.

"Parents are devastated, the entire country is devastated... the dilemma is for parents, for school teachers, for education activists like me, because I have been encouraging children, almost every year running campaigns to encourage them to go back to school.. and now the question is shall we encourage them to go because the schools are no more safe... But I did witness myself, the next morning I saw children near my house, going to school, which is also a very strong thing to do."

(Photo: Men carry the coffin of one of the victims of the explosion during a mass burial ceremony. Credit: Reuters)

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