At least 19 other people were killed and 27 others wounded after an explosion at an schooling centre in Afghanistan.
Taliban officers say a suicide bomber struck a Shiite space of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday morning.
The explosion befell inside of a centre within the Dashti Barchi neighbourhood, in keeping with a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police leader.
The sufferers have been most commonly female and male college scholars, who have been taking a convention college front examination when the blast went off, the respectable added.
The personal facility is referred to as the Kaaj Higher Educational Center and is helping scholars get ready and learn about for varsity front checks.
Education centres within the space will now want to ask the Taliban for extra safety after they host occasions, officers say.
No one has instantly claimed duty for the assault.
The blast is the newest assault in opposition to Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslim group for the reason that Taliban seized energy in August 2021.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) team — the executive rival of the Taliban — has up to now focused the Hazara group, who’re most commonly Shiite Muslims, in Dashti Barchi.
The US chargé d’affaires for Afghanistan, Karen Decker, condemned the assault at the Kaaj schooling centre.
“Targeting a room full of students taking exams is shameful; all students should be able to pursue an education in peace and without fear,” she wrote on Twitter. “We hope for a swift recovery for the victims and we grieve with the families of the deceased.”
The United Nations youngsters’s fund (UNICEF) stated it was once appalled via Friday’s assault, including that violence in or round tutorial institutions was once by no means appropriate.
“This heinous act claimed the lives of dozens of adolescent girls and boys and severely injured many more,” UNICEF tweeted.
“Children and adolescents are not, and must never be, the target of violence.”
