Kabul, Sep 30: A suicide blast at an education institute in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul has killed 19 people and injured 27 others, reported news agency Reuters quoting a Kabul police spokesperson.
Afghan-based media house Tolo News said on Twitter that as per initial reports, at least 19 people were killed in the attack at Kaj educational centre. It quoted Khaled Zadran, the spokesman of the Kabul Security Command, as saying that the students came to the centre to pass the entrance exam.
According to a Reuters report, Zadran said the attack occurred at an education institute where an entrance exam was taking place. Schools are usually closed in Afghanistan on Fridays. “Attacking civilian targets proves the enemy’s inhuman cruelty and lack of moral standards,” he said, without specifying who they believed was behind the attack.
The report added that the death toll is likely to rise, with an unnamed hospital source putting the number of dead at 23, while a Taliban source claimed that it is 33. Ghulam Sadiq, a local resident, told Reuters that he was at home when he heard a loud sound and went outside to see smoke rising from the education centre where he and his neighbours rushed to help. “My friends and I were able to move around 15 wounded and 9 dead bodies from the explosion site, other bodies were lying under chairs and tables inside the classroom,” he said.
