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20 Women Dead In Suicide Attack On Kabul Classroom

20 Women Dead In Suicide Attack On Kabul Classroom

Tragedy has struck as a suicide bomber has reportedly attacked an education centre which is located in the Afghan capital on Friday where some of the hundreds of students had been preparing for university exams thereby killing at least 20 people, most of them young women.

The suicide bombing had also been reported to have occured in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of western Kabul, a predominantly Shiite Muslim area which is also home to the minority Hazara community, the target of some of Afghanistan’s most deadly attacks.

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Afghan hospital attackers 'came to kill mothers' - MSF

Afghan Hospital Attackers’ Came To Kill Mothers’: MSF

Gunmen who stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital this week had come to “kill the mothers” at the maternity ward, medical charity Doctors Without Borders has said.

At least 24 people were killed — including newborns, mothers and nurses — when three armed men rampaged through the maternity ward of the hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, in an attack that sparked international outrage.

The United States later said the deadly assault was carried out by the Islamic State group.

“What I saw in the maternity hospital demonstrates it was a systematic shooting of the mothers,” said Frederic Bonnot on …