Afghanistan: 53 dead, including at least 46 young women, in the attack on a training center
A general view of the damaged room at the site of a suicide bomb attack at the learning center in Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood in Kabul on September 30, 2022. AFP - -
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The suicide attack committed Friday, September 30 took place in a district of Kabul sheltering the Shiite Hazara minority considered impious by the Taliban.
The girls separated from the boys in the room were the main victims of the assailant.
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Friday, September 30, a suicide attack, which has not yet been claimed, was perpetrated in a center preparing for university exams.
It killed 53 people.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Manua) wanted to alert the international community to the fact that most of the victims of this attack are girls and young women.
The number of 110 injured raises fears that the toll could rise further.
According to a student on site at the time of the explosion, interviewed by AFP, "
few boys were affected, because they were at the back of the class and the suicide bomber entered through the front door where the girls were seated
”.
The Taliban authorities, for their part, give a toll of 25 people dead and 33 injured.
Further rise in casualties from Friday's classroom bombing in #Hazara quarter of #Kabul:
53 killed, at least 46 girls & young women
110 injured
Our human rights team continues documenting the crime: verifying facts & establishing reliable data to counter denial & revisionism
— UNAMA News (@UNAMAnews) October 3, 2022
Over the weekend, sporadic protests took place in the capital and other cities.
At their head, women who came to denounce the attack and say that they would continue to study: “
The only thing we have is education.
Education is our weapon, and they want to take it from us
,” one of them told AFP.
These initiatives were stifled by the Taliban forces who fired into the air several times to disperse the demonstrators.
The Dasht-e-Barchi district where the attack took place has been heavily hit in recent years, and since the return to power of the Taliban, by attacks claimed by the regional branch of the jihadist group Islamic State, the EI- K, who considers the Hazaras heretics.
Since the Taliban came to power in August 2021, they have imposed strict regulations concerning the education of young girls who can no longer access secondary education.
On the other hand, female students are admitted to university, but their number should decrease over the years, for lack of having been to college and high school.
(With AFP)
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