KABUL, Jan. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Suspected Taliban militants set fire on a girls school Thursday night in Afghan eastern province of Laghman, a local police said.

    "Last night at about 12 p.m. (8:30 p.m. GMT) some suspected Taliban militants blazed a girls school in Haidar area, but there is no casualty of school staff," Hizbullah, the spokesperson of the governor told Xinhua.

    The spokesperson blamed Taliban to carry out this kind of attack, and said the investigation is still going on.

    According to some reliable resources, four school staff have been kidnapped by the militants, but the spokesperson denied.

    Taliban militants besides lauching attacks against Afghan and foreign troops, intensifying the attacks to destroy the female schools.

    A secondary school was set fire early this month in the southern province of Helmand. Some gunmen entered the compound of a secondary school in Sha Peshti village and after beating the guards, they set the school on fire.

    Besides that Taliban always distribute threatening papers in the southern Kandahar province, the former stronghold of Taliban regime, threatening students and teachers to give up going to school. Enditem