AT LEAST 48 DIE AS BOMBER TARGETS KABUL STUDENTS

AT LEAST 48 people, most of them students, were killed when a suicide blast ripped through a school in a Shiite area of Kabul yesterday,.

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani denounced the “terrorist bombing” and ordered authorities to investigate how the attack happened.

Mr Ghanis said that “the terrorists martyred and wounded the innocent” – students attending a training class in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul.

He added that “by targeting educational and cultural centres, terrorists have clearly shown they are against all those Islamic principles (that strive) for both men and women to learn and study.”

Afghanistan’s Public Health Ministry listed the death toll at 48 and 67 wounded but a spokesman said the figures could rise.

The bomber targeted a private building in the Shiite neighbourhood of Dasht-i Barcha where a group of young men and women were studying for university entrance exams.

Picture: AFP Afghan volunteers carry a victim to a hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul that killed at least 48 people and wounded 67 others.