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19 Killed After Suicide Blast In Kabul Educational Centre: Cops
A self-murder lemon attack at a literacy centre in the Afghan capital on Friday killed 19 people as scholars prepared for university entrance examinations, police saidThe blast happed in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of western Kabul, a generally Shiite Muslim area home to the nonage Hazara community, the targets of some of Afghanistan’s most deadly attacks.
scholars were preparing for an test when a self-murder bomber struck at this educational centre. Unfortunately, 19 people have been killed and 27 others wounded,” Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said.
Kaaj Higher Educational Center coaches scholars, substantially adult men and women, to prepare for university entrance examinations.
Families rushed to area hospitals, where ambulances were arriving with victims and lists of those verified dead and wounded were posted to the wallsWe did not find her then,” a worried woman looking for her family at one of the hospitals told AFP.” She was 19 times old.”
We’re calling her but she’s not responding.”
At at least one sanitarium, the Taliban forced families of victims to leave the point, stewing that there could be a follow-up attack on the crowd.vids posted online and prints published by original media showed crippled victims being carried down from the scene.
Security brigades have reached the point, the nature of the attack and the details of the casualties will be released latterly,” Abdul Nafy Takor, the interior ministry’s spokesperson, before twittered.Attacking mercenary targets proves the adversary’s inhuman atrocity and lack of moral norms.”
The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan last time brought an end to the two- decade war and a significant reduction in violence, but security has begun to deteriorate in recent months.Afghanistan’s Shiite Hazaras have faced persecution for decades, with the Taliban indicted of abuses against the group when they first ruled from 1996 to 2001.
similar allegations picked up again after they swept back to power.Hazaras are also the frequent target of attacks by the Taliban’s adversary, the Islamic State fortified group. Both consider them heretics.numerous attacks have devastated the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood, with numerous targeting women, children and seminaries.
Last time, before the Taliban returned to power, at least 85 people– substantially girl scholars– were killed and about 300 wounded when three losers exploded near their academy in the area.No group claimed responsibility, but a time before IS claimed a self-murder attack on an educational centre in the same neighbourhood that killed 24, including scholars.
In May 2020, the group was criticized for a bloody gun attack on a motherliness ward of a sanitarium in Dasht-e-Barchi that killed 25 people, including new matersAnd in April this time, two deadly lemon blasts at separate education centres in the area killed six people and wounded at least 20 otherEducation is a flashpoint issue in Afghanistan, with the Taliban blocking numerous girls from returning to secondary education, while the Islamic State also stands against the education of women and girls.
