A suicide bomber has triggered his explosives belt in this higher education center, one of the few to still welcome girls and boys in common rooms. Thirty wounded were identified by the Ministry of the Interior.
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If the war is officially completed, since August 15, 2021, in Afghanistan, it is not weekly without violence hitting the civilian population. At least 19 people were killed on Friday, September 30, in Kabul on Friday, in Kabul in a suicide bombing for the Kaaj higher education center, a private school preparing for university entrance exams. Thirty wounded were also identified by the Taliban Interior Ministry. Located in the heart of the Dasht-E-Barchi district, in the west of the Afghan capital, 95 % inhabited by the Hazara, a Shiite minority, this establishment was one of the few to welcome girls and boys together , in common classrooms.
Friday evening, the attack was still not claimed but the Afghan and foreign authorities considered that the Islamic State (IS) organization, at the origin of many similar attacks, could have its share of responsibility in this act . Interior ministry spokesperson Abdul Nafi Takor assured that a suspect having a link with the attack had been arrested without providing details. In the past, similar declarations had not resulted in any tangible fact.
a majority of young girls affected
According to one of the officials of the Kaaj Higher Education Center, joined by messaging, the assailant, claiming to be a student, presented himself around 7:30 a.m. in front of the two armed guards who filtered the entrance before ‘Access a secure passage by a concrete airlock. After slaughtering the two men, he burst into the enclosure and slipped through the front door in the large amphitheater of the school, where several hundred students have planned for an hour on a white exam. The noise of the shots had come down to them but they did not have time to leave the premises.
The suicide bomber triggered his belt of explosives at the foot of the platform, in front of the ranks occupied by the girls, which explains that a majority of victims are women. The boys were less affected because they were installed in the upper ranks of the class. The sheet metal roof has collapsed and part of the walls was blown away by the explosion. The images of the local media showed, Friday, the families flow, often crying, in the hospitals of the city in search of their children. Lists of deceased or injured students were hung at the entrance to health establishments.
In June, Le Monde went to this same school. Already targeted in 2017 on another site, she had moved in 2019. Before discovering the door, anonymous, from the establishment, it was necessary to borrow an alley perpendicular at boulevard Shahid-Mazari. Its administrator, Mohammad Zahir Mohammadi, welcomed the visitor with reserve, fearing the IS as well as the Taliban. “The ministry’s agents for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice control two to three times a month, he said. He reigns a lot of uncertainty and we fear terrorist attacks.”
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