Afghanistan | Heavy toll after bomb attack near school – VIDEO

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Published on 09/05/2021 at 14:00

The bombings that took place near a girls’ school in Kabul district mainly resided by Khazars Shiites, killed 50 people, announced the Afghan Interior Ministry today.

Ministry spokesman Tarek Arian told reporters that a trapped car exploded in front of the Sajed Al-Suhada school on Saturday and that two more bombs exploded as schoolgirls rushed out of the school in panic. 

He added that the injured are more than 100 and that most of the victims are schoolgirls. An eyewitness told Reuters that all victims, except seven or eight, were schoolgirls returning home after school. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has blamed the Taliban.

“The Taliban are behind these attacks,” he said. “They have already carried out similar attacks on schools in the past,” Arian said. However, the Taliban have denied involvement in such attacks. The attack took place shortly after noon in front of a Shi’ite mosque in the western part of the Afghan capital, Dasht-e-Barchi. Shiite Khazars are often targeted by Sunni Islamist organizations.

The bomb attack took place while the residents were shopping for Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of Ramadan fasting next week. The attacks take place as the US military continues to withdraw its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan, leaving behind a country torn apart by a 20-year conflict.

Source: CNA, ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ, AFP-Reuters / ΗΦ, euronews.gr

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