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October 3, 2022
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The death toll from a suicide bombing that targeted an educational center in Kabul last Friday has risen to 43, according to a new toll published by the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan on Monday.
A suicide bomber blew himself up near a classroom in a Kabul neighborhood inhabited by a majority of the Shiite Hazara minority.
A statement by the mission on Twitter said that there were “43 dead and 83 wounded. The majority of the victims are girls and young women,” noting that the death toll is likely to rise.
The suicide bomber blew himself up while dozens of students were taking university entrance exams.
According to the latest toll of the Taliban authorities, 25 people were killed and 33 others were wounded in the attack.
The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan last year turned the page on a two-decade war against the Western-backed government, and led to a marked decrease in violence, but security began to deteriorate in recent months.
After the attack, women demonstrated in a number of cities, including Kabul.
Taliban forces fired in the air several times to disperse female demonstrators, some of whom reported being beaten.
In May last year, before the Taliban returned to power, 85 people, mostly girls, were killed, and nearly 300 others were wounded in three bomb explosions near a school in Dasht al-Barshi.
(AFP)
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