Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Sept 30: As students prepared for exams on Friday morning, a suicide attack at an educational centre in the Afghan capital left 19 people dead, according to authorities.
The explosion took place in the western Kabul neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, which is home to the minority Hazara group and is primarily Shiite Muslim and the site of some of Afghanistan’s deadliest attacks.
?”Students were preparing for an exam when a suicide bomber struck at this educational centre. Unfortunately, 19 people have been martyred and 27 others wounded,” police spokesman Khalid Zadran said.
“Security teams have reached the site, the nature of the attack and the details of the casualties will be released later,” the interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafy Takor tweeted.
After the Taliban took back control of Afghanistan last year, the two-decade conflict ended and there was a marked decrease in violence, but under the hardline Islamists, security has started to deteriorate recently.
Shiite Hazaras in Afghanistan have long endured persecution, with the Taliban being blamed for mistreating them during their initial control from 1996 to 2001.
Once they returned to power, these accusations resumed. The Islamic State organisation, a rival of the Taliban, frequently targets Hazaras in its attacks. They are seen as heretics by both.
The region has been ravaged by several attacks, many of which targeted women, girls, and schools.
