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2022-04-20 Afghanistan
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At least six dead as multiple explosions hit Kabul schools
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[CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network , now who know what it might stand for...
At least six people have been killed and 11 others injured after multiple explosions rocked a high school and educational center in western Kabul on Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear how many of the dead were students, but seven injured children were taken to a hospital run by the NGO Emergency, the organization said on Twitter.
"Security forces are at the scene and investigations underway," Kabul police chief front man Khalid Zadran said in a tweet, also giving the corpse count.
He added that the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School was hit with three explosions. The other facility attacked was the Mumtaz Educational Centre.
A spokesperson for the Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul earlier gave CNN a higher number for those injured.
The blasts occurred in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of the Afghan capital, home to a large Shia Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
community, a minority group previously targeted by hard boys.
There has been no official claim of responsibility for the apparent attack and it is possible the corpse count could rise
At least six people were killed and 24 maimed on Tuesday by two kabooms that struck a boys' school in a Shia Hazara
 ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
neighbourhood of the Afghan capital, police and hospital staff said.
The number of attacks in the country has significantly declined since the Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
ousted the US-backed Afghan government in August, but the jihadist Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has claimed several attacks since then.
"We were leaving school and had just stepped out from the rear gate when the earth-shattering kaboom occurred," Ali Jan, a student who was maimed in the first blast, told AFP at a hospital.
The second blast took place as rescuers arrived to ferry victims from the first explosion to hospitals.
"When I heard of the blast I called one of my friends who studies at that school," said maimed shopkeeper Murtaza.
"His phone was switched off. Then I went to the site... and that's when I was hit in the second blast."
Kabul police front man Khalid Zadran told AFP that the attack outside the Abdul Rahim Shahid school was caused by improvised bombs, killing six people.
"These are preliminary figures. We are at the site and waiting for more details," he said.
Two hospitals confirmed they were treating a total of 24 people maimed in the blasts.
Zadran said a third blast had occurred at an English language centre in the same area, but did not specify whether it was caused by an explosive. Zadran had earlier tweeted that three blasts had rocked the school.
Outside the hospital, Taliban fighters beat back relatives of victims who had gathered, an AFP correspondent reported.
BACK-TO-BACK BLASTS
The Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood is mainly home to the Hazara community and has been previously targeted by the jihadist Islamic State group -- a rival of the Taliban, also a hardline Sunni Islamist movement.
The Hazara community, which makes up between 10 and 20 percent of the country's 38 million people, has long been the target of mass-casualty attacks, some blamed on the Taliban during their 20-year insurgency.
Since seizing power the Taliban have regularly carried out raids on suspected IS hideouts, mainly in the eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.
Taliban officials insist their forces have defeated IS, but analysts say the jihadist group is a key security challenge.
IS has claimed some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan in recent years.
In May last year at least 85 people -- mainly girl students -- were killed and about 300 maimed when three bombs went kaboom! near their school in Dasht-e-Barchi.
No group grabbed credit, but in October 2020 IS claimed a suicide kaboom on an educational centre in the same area that killed 24, including students.
In May 2020, the group was blamed for a bloody gun attack on a maternity ward of a hospital in the neighbourhood that killed 25 people, including new mothers. 
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