Taliban deny responsibility after secondary school targeted in bloody attack in Kabul
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Akhtar Mohammad Makoii in Herat and Agence France-Presse in Kabul
Sun 9 May 2021 12.42 EDT
First published on Sun 9 May 2021 08.06 EDT
Dozens of girls were buried on Sunday 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.
A series of blasts outside the school during a peak holiday shopping period killed more than 50 people, mostly female students, and wounded more than 100 in Dasht-e-Barchi, a suburb of west Kabul populated mostly by Hazara Shias.
The government blamed the Taliban for the carnage, but the insurgents denied responsibility and issued a statement saying the nation needed to “safeguard and look after educational centres and institutions”.
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