46 Girls And Women Among 53 Killed In Kabul Classroom Suicide Bombing

An explosion occurred near the Pul-e-Sukhta area on Shahid Mazari Road in the west of Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Written by: Tahir Qureshi Edited by: Tahir Qureshi

Updated: October 3, 2022, 6:25 PM IST

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Relatives and medical staff shift a wounded girl from an ambulance outside a hospital in Kabul on September 30, 2022, following a blast at a learning centre in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of Afghanistan's capital. A suicide bomb attack at a learning centre in the Afghan capital on September 30 killed 19 people as students prepared for university entrance exams, police said. (AFP)

Kabul: At least 53 people including 46 girls and women have been killed in a Kabul classroom Suicide bombing, reported AFP News Agency citing the UN. Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported that an explosion occurred near the Pul-e-Sukhta area on Shahid Mazari Road in the west of Kabul, the Afghan capital.

On Friday, September 30, at least 100 children were reportedly killed in a suicide bombing at an educational institute in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul when a suicide bomber struck an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital. The explosion inside the center in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul, populated mostly by members of Afghanistan’s minority Shiite community, took place in the morning hours.

Further details are awaited.