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Suicide bomber targets school in Kabul, attacked blamed on ISIS
[Al Jazeera] At least 48 people have been killed in a suicide kaboom in front of an education centre in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to the health ministry.

Wednesday's attack in the Shia neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi left dozens more injured, Waheed Majrooh, a front man for Afghanistan's ministry of public health, told Al Jazeera.

The kaboom initially set off gunfire from Afghan guards in the area, leading to assumptions that there were more attackers involved, but officials later said all indications were that there was only one bomber.

"We can confirm the attack was caused by a jacket wallah on foot. The bomber let 'er rip inside the education centre," said Hashmat Stanikzai, police front man.

Abdul Hossain Hossainzada, a Shia community leader in the neighbourhood in western Kabul, said the bomber apparently targeted the course, which had young men and women studying together.
Khaama Press adds:
Ministry of Public Health officials added at least 67 people who have sustained injuries in the attack, have also been shifted to the hospitals for the treatment.

No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the attack so far.

The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 group had earlier issued a statement confirming that the fighters of the group have no links with today’s attack in Dasht Barchi.
Ynet adds:
A jacket wallah struck a private education center in a Shiite neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday where high school graduates were preparing for university entrance exams, killing 48 young men and women and leaving behind a scene of devastation and tragedy.

The bombing, blamed on the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group, was the latest assault on Afghanistan's Shiite community, which has increasingly been targeted by Sunni gunnies who consider Shiites to be heretics.
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