46 girls killed in Friday suicide bombing in Afghan school: UN
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New Delhi: The suicide bomb attack on the Kaaj education center in Kabul on Friday has left 53 dead, most of whom are girls and young women, said the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Monday.
As many as 110 people injured in the bombing in the predominantly Hazara neighbourhood of Afghan capital.
The ethnic minority group, Hazaras have long faced oppression in the nation and the latest attack is a sign of how insecure the country has become under Taliban's watch.
The UN mission tweeted that human rights team continued documenting the crime: verifying facts and establishing reliable data to counter denial and revisionism.
Students were taking a practice university entrance exam in the morning when the blast first took place, CNN quoted Kabul Police Spokesman Khalid Zadran as saying.
Expressing the seething anger in the Hazara, women of the community took out a protest march against the terror attack in Kabul.
India on Saturday condemned the suicide and offered condolences to the bereaved families.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi Arindam Bagchi tweeted India's strong response to the massacre, condemning the targeting of innocent students.
The humanitarian organization EMERGENCY on Friday said their surgical center received 22 patients, including 20 women and the victims were all between 18 and 25 years old, adding that most of them were in the classroom to take an exam.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid tweeted on Friday to condemn the attack, as well as expressing "deepest sympathy to the families of the victims of this incident".
He promised "serious measures" to find and punish the perpetrators.
Twenty years after their ouster by U.S forces, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021 leaving the wrecked nation in tension and confusion.
Under their previous stint Taliban cracked down on women's rights.
