Dozens Killed, Injured, in Suicide Blast Outside School in Kabul

A suicide-bomb attack killed dozens in front of a school in a Shia and Hazara neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, August 15, the country’s public health ministry said.This video shows scenes in the Dasht-e-Barchi district, demonstrating the effects of the blast on shop windows in the neighborhood and showing a few artifacts left behind.The single bomber, on foot according to police, was said to have killed 48 people and wounded dozens, according to the health ministry and media reports.The attack injured mostly students and came after a five-day Taliban siege on the city of Ghazni, about 90 miles southeast of Kabul, during which 120 were killed before US and Afghan forces drove the militants’ retreat, The Washington Post reported.A Taliban spokesman denied any connection to the Kabul attack. The circumstances match previous suicide bombings by Islamic State, however, targeting mosques, shrines and other sites in Shiite and ethnic Hazara Dasht-e-Barchi, according to The Washington Post’s Afghanistan bureau chief, Pamela Constable. Credit: TOLOnews via Storyful