US STATE DEPARTMENT HINTS AT ISIS INVOLVEMENT IN AFGHAN GIRLS SCHOOL BOMBING

Mon 10 May 2021:

The Islamic State group may be behind the recent bombing of a girls’ school in the Afghan capital Kabul, State Department spokesperson Ned price said on Monday.

“The circumstances of the bombing over the weekend, they are not yet crystal clear .

.. there are some indications this may have been attributable to ISIS and not the Taliban,” Price told reporters.

Price noted that the bombing bears similarity to other Islamic State attacks against Shia targets in Kabul.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for the attack, Price noted.

Meanwhile the death toll in a bomb attack that targeted schoolgirls in Kabul on Saturday has risen to 85, Afghan officials said on Monday.

Another 147 people were wounded in the attack in front of the Sayed Al-Shuhada school, said Danish Hedayat, head of media for the second vice president of Afghanistan.

A car bomb was detonated in the neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, and two more bombs exploded when students rushed out in panic.

Officials said most of those killed were schoolgirls. Some families were still searching hospitals for their children on Sunday.

“The first blast was powerful and happened so close to the children that some of them could not be found,” an Afghan official, requesting anonymity, told Reuters.

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