Blasts targeting Afghan school in Kabul kill 40, injures dozens

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Multiple blastsat a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officialssaid.

A senior interior ministry official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that most of the casualties were students coming out of the Sayed ul Shuhada school.

A spokesman for the interior ministry, Tariq Arian, put the death toll at least 25 but did not specify the cause or the target. Kabul is on high alert since Washington announced plans last month to pull out all U.S. troops by Sept. 11, with Afghan officials saying the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country.

The explosions took place in western Kabul, a heavily Shi’ite Muslim neighbourhood that has frequently been attacked by Islamic State militants over the years.

 

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