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• Nov. 14: Masuma reacts while Shamsia Husainai, 17, lies on a bed at a local hospital in Kabul after an acid attack on her Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Men squirted the acid from water bottles onto three groups of students and teachers walking to school. Some of the girls have burns only on their school uniforms, but others will have scars on their faces.
• Nov. 14: Shamsia Husainai, 17, rests on a hospital bed in Kabul after an acid attack on her Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Men squirted the acid from water bottles onto three groups of students and teachers walking to school. Some of the girls have burns only on their school uniforms but others will have scars on their faces.
• Nov. 14: Shamsia Husainai, 17, recovers at a local hospital after an acid attack on her Wednesday, in Khandahar, Afghanistan. No students showed up for class Thursday at Mirwais Mena high school, an all-girls school in the Taliban's spiritual birthplace, because of a spate of vicious attacks. Men on a motorbike squirted acid from a water bottle onto three groups of students and teachers walking to school.
• Nov. 14: Atifa Bibi, an Afghan school girl, recovers in a hospital after two men on a motorbike threw acid on her in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Two men on a motorbike threw acid on Afghan girls walking to school in Kandahar on Wednesday.
• Nov. 14: Shamia, left, an Afghan school girl, recovers in a hospital after two men on a motorbike threw acid on her in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• Nov. 14: An Afghan medic treats Atifa Bibi, an Afghan school girl, in a hospital after two men on a motorbike threw acid on her in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• Nov. 14: Shamsia Husainai 17, recovers at a local hospital after an acid attack on her Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan.