KABUL, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Militants gunned down the administrator of a school in the troubled Helmand province on Sunday, a local official said.

    "Armed insurgents shot dead the administrator of a Lycee in NadAli district at 6:00 a.m. this morning when he was going from mosque to his house," Saiful Malook, director of the education department in Helmand told Xinhua.

    He blamed the shooting on the enemies of Afghanistan, referring to Taliban militants.

    Over a dozen teachers, students and school staff were killed by militants in 2006.

    Militants also set on fire a school in the eastern Kunar province on Thursday, destroying two class rooms and textbooks.