Two bombs exploded Tuesday at a boys’ school in a Shiite Hazara neighbourhood of Kabul’s capital, injuring at least a dozen people, according to police, who released graphic photographs from the incident on social media.
Two IEDs were planted outside the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in Kabul’s western Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood, according to police spokesperson Khalid Zadran.
He earlier tweeted that the school was rocked by three explosions. The school is in an area frequented by the Hazara ethnic minority and has been attacked by the Islamic State before.
Witnesses told AFP that the explosions occurred as students were leaving their morning sessions. Hospitals were evacuated, but Taliban militants prevented media from accessing the site.
However, despite the Taliban’s rise to power in August, the Islamic State organisation continues to carry out attacks on public targets around the nation.
Islamic State (IS) is a major security threat to the hardline Islamists who currently dominate Afghanistan, according to Taliban leaders.
Around 300 people were injured when three bombs exploded near their Dasht-e-Barchi school in the May of last year, killing at least 85 people, most of whom were female pupils.
A suicide strike on an educational facility in the same location claimed the lives of 24 people, including pupils, in October 2020, according to Islamic State (IS).
In May of 2020, the organisation was accused of carrying out a brutal attack on a local hospital’s maternity unit, in which 25 people were slain, including new mothers.
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