KABUL — Several casualties were feared after
two bombs rocked a boys’ school in a
Shiite Hazara neighborhood of the Afghan
capital on Tuesday, police said, with social media showing grisly images of
dead and wounded at the scene.
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Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran told AFP that
two improvised explosive devices were placed outside the Abdul Rahim Shahid
high school in the capital’s western Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood.
He earlier tweeted that three blasts had rocked the
school, which is in an area mainly inhabited by the Hazara community and has
been previously targeted by the
Daesh group.
Tuesday’s blasts occurred as students were coming
out of their morning classes, a witness told AFP.
Victims were taken to hospital, but Taliban fighters
kept journalists from the premises.
Attacks on public targets have largely diminished
since the Taliban seized power in August last year, Daesh continues to operate
across the country.
Taliban officials insist their forces have defeated
Daesh, but analysts say the terror group is a key security challenge to the
hardline Islamists who now rule
Afghanistan.
In May last year at least 85 people — mainly girl
students — were killed and about 300 were wounded when three bombs exploded
near their school in Dasht-e-Barchi.
No group claimed responsibility, but in October 2020
Daesh claimed a suicide attack on an educational center in the same area that
killed 24, including students.
In May 2020, the group was blamed for a bloody attack on a maternity ward
of a hospital in the neighborhood that killed 25 people, as well as new
mothers.
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