At least 19 dead in a new bloody Friday in the capital
New Bloody Friday in Kabul. Terror struck Afghanistan’s capital again on the holy day for Muslims, putting the country’s Shiite minority back in its sights. At least 19 people lost their lives after the self-immolation of a suicide bomber in an educational center in the Dasht-e-Barchi district, west of the capital and an area where the majority is Hazara, a Shiite ethnic group. The operation follows the pattern of previous attacks by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, a great internal enemy of the Taliban and with sectarian war as one of the banners of its agenda.
“Students were preparing for an exam when a suicide bomber attacked this school,” said police spokesman Khalid Zadran. Schools close on Fridays in the country, but this center held an extraordinary session for students who are preparing to make the leap to university.
The Hazaras were previously targeted by the Taliban who now have a responsibility to protect them. The IS considers them heretics and has not stopped some attacks with which it achieves the double objective of terrorizing this minority and calling into question the state of security in the country that the Taliban have spoken of since coming to power.
Dasht-e-Barchi district is a true martyr area because it has suffered countless attacks. One of the bloodiest occurred in 2021, before the return of the Islamists to Kabul, and at least 85 people lost their lives and 300 were injured, most of them students, after a jihadist operation against their school.
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan condemned this attack that occurs “within the framework of the deterioration of the security situation” in the country. Organizations such as UNICEF showed their “dismay” at this “atrocious act” against an educational center.
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