A few days before the departure of the Army from States United of Afghanistan the persecuted Hazara Shiite minority of Afghanistan has once again been the victim of an attack in Kabul , which caused at least 30 deaths and 79 injured , by the explosion of a bomb at the entrance of a secondary school female where studied girls .
The explosion occurred in the early afternoon in the area of Dasht-e-Barchi in the west of the city, in front of the entrance gate of the school female secondary school Sayed-ul-Shuhad a, just at the moment when the girls were leaving the classrooms.
“The death toll has increased a 30 , “Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said in a statement.
In addition, the injured also rose to 79 , who were admitted to several hospitals , explained to Efe the spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, Dastagir Nazari , who assured that “a large number of the injured and dead are children.”
“Several injured people are in critical condition and our doctors are trying to save them,” said Nazari.
The images of the attack soon began to flood social networks, in which minors are seen on the ground with burns in front of what appears to be the main door of the educational center, as well as other bloodied children being treated in a hospital.
“Our children do not deserve this. No child deserves this. This is international terrorism, “the renowned Afghan activist Wazhma Frogh lamented on Twitter.
The attack took place in an area inhabited mainly by the Shiite Hazara minority, a common target of Islamist attacks, such as the one that happened last October in that neighborhood against another educational center, which left 24 dead and 57 wounded.
On that occasion the outbreak occurred when the center’s security guards identified “a suicide bomber on foot”, who detonated the explosives he was carrying when he was denied passage.
A year ago, in that same neighborhood, a maternity hospital was also attacked in which they died 16 people, including, as reported by the authorities at the time, “two newborns, mothers of newborns and midwives, who were shot.”
TALIBANS AND ISLAMIC STATE
Although today’s attack has not yet been claimed, everything seems to point to the gr The jihadist Islamic State (IS), which often calls for this type of attack against the Hazara, whom it considers apostates.
The Taliban, who distanced themselves from the attack in a statement, condemned the attack against civilians, and blamed “sinister circles that, in the name of ISIS, operate under the wings and cover of the intelligence services of the Kabul Administration.”
However, In a crossroads of accusations, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani directly blamed the Taliban in another statement, which “by intensifying their illegitimate war once again demonstrated that they are not only unwilling to end the current crisis by peaceful means, rather they complicate the situation by sabotaging the current opportunity for peace. ”
The president described this action as“ a crime against humanity and Islamic principles ”and said that the Taliban, even in this holy month of Ramadan, do not prevent the slaughter of civilians, “mercilessly attacking place It is public and girls’ schools. ”
Given what happened, Ghani ordered the security forces to“ respond ”forcefully to this action by the Taliban.
INCREASE IN VIOLENCE IN AFGHANISTAN
The attack occurs when levels of violence have been increasing in the country , especially during the last week, after the May 1 deadline that the Taliban had agreed with the United States in February last year in Doha for foreign troops to leave Afghanistan.
However, the new United States Administration delayed the withdrawal date until next September 11, when they will be met. two decades of the jihadist attacks that unleashed shortly after the US invasion of Afghanistan that overthrew the Taliban.
Thus, in the last 24 hours, at least 250 Taliban died and 106 were injured in fighting with Afghan troops in nine of the 34 provinces of the country, reported the Ministry of Defense.
This is the highest number of insurgent casualties in 24 hours in two years in Afghanistan, showing how it has gone intensifying the conflict in the country despite successive attempts to advance the stalled peace talks.
In addition, during the last week, “nearly a thousand Taliban fighters were killed and injured, among them some key commanders of the group, “said the acting Defense Minister Yasin Zia at a press conference in Kabul.
The minister assured that these are” counterattacks “To try to regain the areas they had lost in recent days to the Taliban, although the advance of the Afghan security forces is slow, he said, because the insurgents are sheltering in houses and using civilians as or human shields.