The attack on a girls' school in Kabul was the deadliest in more than a year AFP/ZAKERIA HASHIMIKABUL: The death toll from bombs planted outside a girls' school in an area of the Afghan capital populated largely by Shiite Hazaras rose to 50 on Sunday as the Taliban denied government accusations that they were behind the bloody attack.
Describing Saturday's carnage, Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian told reporters that a car bomb first detonated in front of the Sayed Al-Shuhada School, and when the students rushed out in panic two more devices exploded.Residents were out shopping ahead of this week's Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.A wounded man is brought to hospital following the bomb attack.
But the group has clashed in near-daily battles with Afghan forces in the rugged countryside even as the US military reduces its presence.
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