Dozens of young girls were buried today at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year.
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Dozens of young girls have been buried on a mountain top in Kabul after a secondary school was targeted for the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in more than a year.
Some out-of-school explosions on Saturday killed more than 50 people during the holiday shopping season, mostly female students, and injured more than 100 in Dasht-e-Barchi, a western district of Kabul, mostly inhabited by Hazara Shia.
The government has blamed the Taliban for the massacre, but the armed group has denied responsibility and warned that the country must “take care and take care of education centers and institutions.”
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No group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion, but the Afghan government has said the Taliban were behind the blast.
The Taliban denied involvement, saying they have not carried out attacks in Kabul since February 2020, when they signed a deal with Washington agreeing to peace talks and a withdrawal of the remaining US troops.
Families, meanwhile, continue their desperate search for missing children. I rushed to the scene [after the blasts] and found myself in the middle of bodies, their hands and heads cut off and bones smashed, Mohammad Taqi, a resident of Dasht-e-Barchi, told AFP.