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24 killed, mostly teenagers, in attack on a school in Kabul
At least 24 people, including teenagers, were killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday at an educational center in the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghan officials were quoted as saying by Reuters on Sunday.
The attacker detonated his explosive charges in the street, in front of the Danish center Kawsar-e in the west of the Afghan capital, said a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry.
Most of the victims are young people between 15 and 26 years old. Another 57 people were injured in the attack, the ministry said.
The attack was denounced by the Islamic State in a statement posted on Instagram, but without providing evidence in this regard.
A Taliban spokesman denied involvement in the attack, in a message posted on Twitter.
The attack, condemned by NATO and the Afghan government, took place in an area inhabited largely by the Shiite community in Afghanistan, a minority that has in the past been the target of several attacks by groups such as the Islamic State.
Dozens of young people were killed in the same area of Kabul in 2018 in another attack on a school, and in May 24 people, including mothers and babies, were killed in an attack on a maternity hospital.
US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad on Sunday called on Twitter to curb the violence and speed up the peace process, citing the escalation of violence in recent weeks, including the conclusion of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. that an Afghanistan airstrike resulted in the death of 12 children.
“How much longer do we have to hold out, as individuals and as a society? How many times can we get up?” Commission chair Shaharzad Akbar wrote on Twitter after Saturday’s attack, saying attacks on civilians were a crime. of war.
