At least six people died and another 15 were injured this Tuesday after the attack with explosives in the educational centers of the Shiite Hazara minority, in western Kabul, without having finalized the count of victims.
The attacks took place this morning in a school support center and a school in the area inhabited by the Hazara minority of Dashte Barchi, in western Kabul, the capital’s police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, told Efe.
“There is no exact information on the number of dead and wounded, but unfortunately at least six dead and more than 15 wounded have been confirmed,” Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor told Efe, warning that ” the death toll could rise.”
Khalil, a witness to the attack on the Abdul Rahim Shaheed school in this Hazara neighborhoodraised the number of victims to at least 8 dead and more than 40 injured, and said that the “two explosions” in the center were produced by “remote control”.
As this witness explained to Efe, one of the explosions occurred “inside the school and the other outside,” on the students’ access road.
Details of the other explosion at the school support center are unknown. The Italian NGO Emergency, which has one of the main hospitals in Kabul, reported on Twitter that they received at least seven injured young people.
Several journalists denounced on social networks that the Taliban prohibited them from accessing the place of the attacks, from where images of the dead bodies of at least four young people were shared in a narrow alley.
Islamic State, possible perpetrator
Although the attacks have not yet been claimed, everything seems to point to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), which usually claims this type of attack against the Hazara, whom it considers apostates.
This neighborhood inhabited by the Hazara minority is a regular target of Islamist attacks, such as the one that happened in May 2021, when an attack on a girls’ school left 110 dead, mostly girls, and 290 injured, according to data from the Hazara Foundation.
It was just at the time of leaving class, with a chain of explosions: the first, the most powerful, occurred on the access road to the school, and then several more bombs were detonated on the way to the school portal , the same route that many of the students had taken in their flight to protect themselves.
Like this Tuesday, these attacks took place in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan.
Months earlier, another attack in October 2020 against an educational center for this religious minority caused 24 deaths and 57 injuries. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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