At least 19 people died and another 30 were injured this Friday after a suicide attack inside an educational center in western Kabul.where mainly members of the attacked Shia Hazara minority reside.
“There was a suicide attack against the Kaj educational center, in which 19 people died and another 27 were injured,” the capital’s police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, told Efe.
We usually ask schools to inform the security forces of the police districts before carrying out these special programs
The explosion took place inside one of the classrooms during a practice exam to prepare for university entrance exams.when the school was packed with students, Zadran added.
“We usually ask schools to inform the security forces of the police districts before carrying out these special programs,” he said.
Malavi Shamsullah, the head of the Police of District 13 of the Afghan capital, where the event took place, raised the number of injured to “30 or 40” in statements to ‘EFE’.
The attack, which took place this morning in the Hazara neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, It has not been claimed at the moment by any terrorist formation or group.
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The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has in the past claimed numerous attacks in Afghanistan against this minority, which it considers apostate.
At least five people were injured, on September 10, in two explosions in Dasht-e-Barchi, while the IS claimed responsibility last April for an attack with explosives in a Shiite mosque in which twelve people died and another 34 were injured. in full Ramadan.
Attacks against students from the Hazara minority have been repeated in recent years in Afghanistan. The last one, also last April, caused at least 6 deaths and 25 injuries, although the Taliban’s control of the information prevented obtaining a clear figure, with some witnesses raising the victims.
In May 2021, an attack on a girls’ school in the Dashte Barchi neighborhood left 110 dead, mostly girls, and 290 injured. Months earlier, another attack in October 2020 against an educational center for this minority caused 24 deaths and 57 injuries.
Since coming to power in August 2021, The Taliban have launched several operations against IS in various parts of the country.eager to show that their return had also meant an end to the violence.
The guarantee of security and control of jihadism was one of the great demands of the Taliban in the territories under their control during the war with the deposed government and international forces.
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