[News] Kabul school attack in Afghanistan kills at least six including children

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At least six people, including a number of children have been killed in a terrorist attack at a boys school in Kabul on Tuesday, Taliban police said.

There are fears the death toll could rise further. The Afghan Journalists Association said a local TV journalist had been detained attempting to report from the area.

The school is in the Dasht e Barchi area in the west of the city, a Hazara majority area. The Hazara are a Shiite minority group in Afghanistan that has often been attacked by ISIS, Al Qaeda and other extremist groups.

A local hospital said at least six people had been killed. The school targeted was reportedly the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School.

"Three blasts have taken place ... in a high school, there are some casualties to our Shia people," said Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for Taliban forces in Kabul.

 

In May last year, at least 85 people, mostly children, were killed in a bombing at the Sayed Al Shuhada school in the same area. ISIS-linked groups in the country have killed hundreds of Afghans from different communities in recent years, but have singled out the Shiite Hazara minority, killing dozens in attacks targeting mosques and schools.

 

Kabul was rocked by sectarian violence in the early 1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1989, who were ousted from the country after an almost decade-long war in support of an allied Communist government.

Warlords battled for control of towns and cities and in west Kabul, Hazara and ethnic Pashtun militias fought street battles and frequently attacked civilians.

But despite high-profile attacks that appear to have a sectarian motive, such as the school bombing last May, similar inter-communal violence has not yet erupted in the capital and the Taliban has pledged to protect the Shiite minority, claiming their forces are capable of stemming a wave of ISIS activity in the country.

 

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