Kabul Blast: According to a Kabul police spokesperson quoted by the news agency Reuters, a suicide bombing at an educational facility in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul resulted in the deaths of 19 people and the injuries of 27 others.
At least 23 people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on an education centre in Kabul, the majority of whom are thought to be young women, and it is the latest indication of the deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital.
The explosion happened on Friday at the Kaaj education centre, which is located in a neighbourhood with a high Hazara population—an ethnic minority group that has long been subjected to oppression.
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On the other hand, according to a local journalist, the incident resulted in the deaths of students, primarily Hazara and Shia. The Hazaras are the third-largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
خالد زدران، سخنگوی فرماندهی امنیه کابل، میگوید که بر بنیاد یافتههای ابتدایی دستکم نزده تن در حملهی امروز در مرکز آموزشی “کاج” جان باختهاند و بیستوهفت تن دیگر زخم برداشتهاند.
آقای زدران میافزاید که دانشآموزان برای گذراندن آزمون آزمایشی کانکور به این مرکز آمده بودند. pic.twitter.com/LTKkzyHiic— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) September 30, 2022
We have so far counted 100 dead bodies of our students, tweeted a local journalist named Bilal Sarwary. The number of fatalities among students is much higher. The classroom was full. The purpose of this practice test was to help students get ready for the real university entrance exam.
Each number on those chairs represented one human being. Each number, and their families, had dreams to come here and take the university preparation entrance examination. Those dreams are dashed with fatal consequences for them, the families, communities , and the country. pic.twitter.com/CnphF6tgd9
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) September 30, 2022
At 7:30 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET), students were taking a mock university entrance exam, according to Kabul Police Spokesman Khalid Zadran.
Doctor Abdu Ghayas Momand from Ali Jinah Hospital, where some of the victims have been taken, reported that 36 people had also been hurt in addition to the 23 fatalities.
Many of the residents of the western region where the explosion took place are Hazara, an ethnic minority that has previously been the target of attacks carried out by militant group Islamic State among other groups.
