Ten killed in bombing at Afghan school

At least ten pupils were killed after a bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan, a Taliban official has said.

Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor said several others were wounded in the blast at the madrassa in Aybak, the capital of the northern Samangan province.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Afghan affiliate of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group has been waging a campaign of violence that escalated since the Taliban took power in August 2021.