CNN: Mortar attack kills 5 girls, ages 12 to 14, at Baghdad school

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Blood drips down a step at a girls school in Baghdad that was hit by mortars Sunday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi schoolgirls taking their midterm exams were the target of a mortar attack Sunday morning that killed five of the students and wounded 21, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.

Insurgents fired at least three mortar rounds at the al-Khulood girls secondary school in western Baghdad, the official said.

The girls who were killed were between the ages of 12 and 14 years.

Those injured included students, employees and workers at the school in the mainly Sunni Adil neighborhood, which is under the jurisdiction of the Iraqi army, the official said.

Video from the scene showed blood spread across stone steps. The windows of classrooms were shattered....

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