At least 19 people were killed in a suicide attack on an education center in a Shia area of the Afghan capital Kabul early Friday, a police spokesman said.
“Students were preparing for an exam when a man blew himself up in this educational center. Unfortunately, 19 people were killed and another 27 were injured,” said Afghan police spokesman Khalid Zadran.
According to the Interior Ministry, the center received students in preparation for university entrance exams in Afghanistan.
“Attacking civilian targets proves the inhuman brutality of the enemy and the lack of moral standards,” said Abdul Nafy Takor, spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
Videos posted on social media and photos released by the local press show bloodied victims being evacuated from the blast site.
Aftermath of today’s explosion in Barchi of # Kabul in the absence of media. Taliban censor the media for not broadcasting such incidents “give me your phone! you must not record video,” a Talib tells the person recording the video.
— Zahra Rahimi (@ZahraSRahimi) September 30, 2022
Another day, another suicide bombing in a classroom in Kabul, Afghanistan
19 people have been killed and more than 30 injured. # Kabul pic.twitter.com/VChIpZW2ZR— Ihtisham Ul Haq (@iihtishamm) September 30, 2022
On April 20, at least six people were killed and 24 injured in two explosions that also hit a boys’ school in Dasht-e-Barchi, a western district of the capital whose residents mainly belong to the Hazara ethnic minority.
Dasht-e-Barchi has come to power in recent years and since the return of the Taliban through several attacks claimed by the regional arm of the Islamic State group, which consider Hazaras heretical for following the Shia branch of the Muslim religion.
In May 2021, a series of explosions also took place in front of a girls’ school in the same district, killing 85 people, mostly young students, and injuring more than 300.
Source: DN
