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Suicide bomber kills 19, wounds 27, in attack on Afghan education center
[IsraelTimes] Attack targets Shiite Moslem area, home to the minority Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...community; no claim of responsibility A suicide kaboom at a learning center in the Afghan capital killed 19 people as students prepared for exams on Friday morning, police said. The blast happened in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of western Kabul, a predominantly Shiite Moslem area home to the minority Hazara community, the scene of some of Afghanistan’s most deadly attacks. "Students were preparing for an exam when a jacket wallah struck at this educational center. Unfortunately, 19 people have been martyred and 27 others maimed," police front man 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 front man Abdul Nafy Takor earlier tweeted. "Attacking civilian targets proves the enemy’s inhuman cruelty and lack of moral standards." The Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s return to power in Afghanistan last year brought an end to the two-decade war and a significant reduction in violence, but security has begun to deteriorate in recent months under the hardline Islamists. Afghanistan’s Shiite Hazaras have faced persecution for decades, with the Taliban accused of abuses against the group when they first ruled from 1996 to 2001. Such accusations picked up again after they swept back to power. Hazaras are also the frequent target of attacks by the Taliban’s enemy the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. Both consider them heretics. Countless attacks have devastated the area, with many targeting children, women and schools. Last year, before the return of the Taliban, at least 85 people — mainly girl students — were killed and about 300 maimed when three bombs went kaboom!near their school in Dasht-e-Barchi. No group grabbed credit, but a year earlier IS claimed a suicide attack on an educational center in the same area that killed 24, including students. In May 2020, the group was blamed for a bloody gun attack on a maternity ward of a hospital in the neighborhood that killed 25 people, including new mothers. And in April this year, two deadly kabooms at separate education centers in the area killed six people and maimed at least 20 others. Education is a flashpoint issue in Afghanistan, with the Taliban blocking many girls from returning to secondary education, while the Islamic State also stand against the education of women and girls. Related: Dasht-e-Barchi: 2022-09-11 Back to back explosions hit Hazara neighborhood in Kabul Dasht-e-Barchi: 2022-04-23 IS Claims Responsibility for Explosions across Afghanistan Dasht-e-Barchi: 2022-04-20 At least six dead as multiple explosions hit Kabul schools Posted by: trailing wife 2022-09-30 |
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