Afghans bury dead from bloody school blasts

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KABUL: Dozens of young girls were buried on Sunday (May 9) at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in ...

KABUL: Dozens of young girls were buried on Sunday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year.outside the school during a peak holiday shopping period killed more than 50 people, mostly female students, and wounded more than 100 in Dasht-e-Barchi, a west Kabul suburb populated mostly by Hazara Shiites.

Residents were shopping ahead of this week's Eid al-Fitr holiday - which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan - when the blasts occurred.On Sunday, relatives buried the dead at a hilltop site known as"Martyrs Cemetery", where victims of attacks against the Hazara community are laid to rest.

The Taliban denied involvement, and insist they have not carried out attacks in Kabul since February last year, when they signed a deal with Washington that paved the way for peace talks and withdrawal of the remaining US troops.

 

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