Feature: Students at Yemen's "rubble school" struggle to keep learning


IBB, Yemen, April 20 (Xinhua) -- "I love going to school and reading stories. I was really disappointed and sad when our school was bombarded and many books were burned," said Abdul Wahab Al-Dhaibani, a Yemeni schoolboy in Ibb province in western Yemen.

As the World Book Day on April 23 is approaching, the schoolboy standing in front of the rubble of the only building of Shuhada-Alwahdah school, tells how he and his classmates have struggled to keep learning and reading books.

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