At least six killed in blasts at Kabul high school

 

 

On Tuesday 19 April, At least six killed after a school in Dasht-e-Barchi was 

hit by a series of explosions.

(Web Desk)

According to police and hospital staff, three bombs burst near a boys' school in Kabul's Shia Hazara area on Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring 17 others.

The explosions occurred inside the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School and several kilometers away, near the Mumtaz Education Centre.

The explosions at the Abdul Rahim Shahid school were triggered by improvised explosive devices, killing at least six individuals and injuring 17 more. Khalid Zadran, a police spokesman in Kabul, told AFP.

"These are preliminary figures. We are investigating for more details, "Zardan said.

Students were among the main victims in the blasts at one school in Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, police said on Tuesday.

According to eyewitnessed students, Tuesday’s explosions occurred as students were coming out of their morning classes at the school, which can house up to a thousand students.

 They said It was not immediately clear how many children were in the school at the time of the blasts.

"We were leaving school and had just stepped out of the rear gate when the explosion occurred," Ali Jan, a student wounded in the first blast, told International Media.

The second blast took a place as rescuers arrived to ferry victims from the first explosion to hospitals.

 Outside a hospital treating the wounded, IEA fighters beat back the families of students who gathered to search for information. Families cried out as they scanned through pictures of victims posted on nearby walls by Hospitals.

No militant group immediately claimed responsibility, however, the area has been targeted in the past by Afghanistan’s ISIL (ISIS) affiliate, which reviles Shia Muslims as heretics.

 

According to the head of a hospital nursing department, who declined to reveal his name, said at least four people had been killed and 14 wounded in the blasts.

Another Emergency Hospital said it had received one dead body and 10 teenagers injured in the explosions.

Afghanistan's Taliban officials say they have secured the country since taking power in August but international officials and analysts say the risk of a resurgence in militancy remains and the Islamic State militant group has claimed several attacks in the Past.

 

 The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) "unequivocally" condemned the "heinous attack" in a statement on Twitter.

And said that "Those responsible for the crime targeting schools & children must be brought to justice,"

Another International Organization Save the Children charity also expressed outrage and strongly condemned the attack.