6 dead in blasts near two Kabul schools

Explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and injured 17 Tuesday in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood of Afghanistan's capital city, police said.

The blasts, which occurred in rapid succession, were being investigated and more casualties were feared, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran and the city's Emergency Hospital. Several of the wounded were in serious condition and some had been treated and released.

The explosions occurred inside the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School and near the Mumtaz Education Centre several kilometres (miles) away, both in the predominately Shiite Muslim neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi. There were no immediate reports of casualties at the Mumtaz Centre.

Guards in the narrow street leading to the two-story high school said they saw 10 casualties. Inside the school, an Associated Press video journalist saw walls splattered with blood, burned notebooks and children's shoes.

The AP spoke to several private guards in the area but they refused to give their names, fearing repercussions from the Taliban security force cordoning off the area.

It appeared a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the sprawling compound, which can house up to 1,000 students, witnesses said.

The incident reported Saturday comes three months after an attack crippled the internet provider, phone system and official online page of Puerto Rico's Senate.

In 2021, a cyberattack hit the website of a private company that took over the transmission and distribution of electricity in the US territory.