The explosions occurred in a mostly Shiite area of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city.
In a largely Shiite region of Afghanistan’s capital city, authorities said, explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and injured 11 others.
According to Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran and the city’s Emergency Hospital, the explosives, which occurred in quick succession, were being investigated and additional injuries were expected. A number of the injured were in serious condition.
The explosions took place inside the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School and a few kilometres away in the Mumtaz Education Center, both in the Shiite Muslim district of Dasht-e-Barchi. At the Mumtaz Center, there were no early reports of casualties.
Guards on the two-story high school’s small street reported they observed ten victims. An Associated Press video journalist spotted blood-splattered walls, charred notebooks, and children’s shoes inside the school.
The Associated Press spoke with numerous private security guards in the area, but they declined to reveal their identities because they were afraid of retaliation from the Taliban security force that had cordoned off the region.
Witnesses claimed it looked a suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside the huge campus, which can accommodate up to 1,000 pupils. The number of youngsters at the school at the time of the explosion was not immediately known.
After Afghanistan’s hardline Taliban leadership broke a pledge to allow all females to attend school, the institution only teaches pupils through the sixth grade.
No one has claimed responsibility as of yet. The area has already been attacked by an Afghan offshoot of the deadly Islamic State terrorist group, which considers Shiite Muslims to be heretics.
