UN CONFIRMED 35 DEATHS IN A BOMBING AT A KABUL CLASSROOM

Sat 01 October 2022:

At least 35 people have died as a result of a suicide bombing that occurred in a Kabul classroom, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan confirmed to AFP on Saturday.

Kabul’s security department’s spokesman Khalid Zadran said that students came to the center, in PD13, to take the Kankor university entrance exam, and the number of casualties is preliminary and may increase.

“An educational institution that held entrance exams has been targeted in Kabul’s PD13. Sadly, preliminary data shows that twenty people were killed in the attack and many others were injured,” Zadran said.

A suicide bomber detonated himself at a study hall on Friday while hundreds of students were taking tests to prepare for university entrance exams in the western Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of the Afghan capital.

The neighbourhood is a predominantly Shiite Muslim enclave and home to the minority Hazara community — a historically oppressed group that has been targeted in some of Afghanistan’s most brutal attacks in recent years.

“The latest casualty figures from the attack number at least 35 fatalities, with an additional 82 wounded,” the mission said in a statement.

Kabul police have so far said that 20 people were killed and 27 others wounded.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack at the Kaaj Higher Educational Centre.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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