The Risk of Jihadist Attacks in Schools

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The school has hundreds of children who've had to flee there from other parts of the country where jihadists have attacked. The hope is that the jihadists that are attacking might skip that classroom and pass on elsewhere, or I think there's nobody there. Their risk is a daily reality in these schools," she says.

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