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The blast took place in the megacity of Aybak in Samangan fiefdom, reportedly as people were leaving prayers.
The maturity of those killed are believed to be children progressed nine to 15, a source in Samangan told the BBCNo group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the death risk could increase.A croakat the original sanitarium said utmost of the victims were scholars at the academy.All of them are children and ordinary people,” one croakerwas quoted by AFP as saying.
He added that some cases with critical injuries were transported to larger hospitals in Mazar- i- Sharif- about 120 kilometres( 74 long hauls) down- for better treatment.Interior ministry spokesperson Abdul Nafee Takkur said the Taliban’s security forces were probing the attack, and pledged to” identify the perpetrators and discipline them for their conduct”.
The former chairman of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, said the explosion was a” crime against humanity” in a tweet, and expressed his sympathy to the families of the victims.Aybak is a literal megacity that came to elevation as a trading mecca and a centre for Buddhists in the 4th and 5th Centuries. It sits around 200 km( 130 long hauls) north of the capital Kabul.
Afghanistan has been rocked by dozens of blasts since the Taliban seized power last time, substantially claimed by the original offshoot of the Islamic State group, known as Islamic State- Khorasan Province( ISIS- K).
The group is the most extreme of the militant groups in Afghanistan and has targeted religious nonages similar as Hazaras- who the Taliban have pledged to cover. still, Human Rights Watch lately observed that” Taliban authorities have done little to cover these communities from self-murder bombings and other unlawful attacks”.
In September, at least 54 people- including 51 girls and youthful women were killed after a self-murder bomber exploded a lemon in the capital megacity of Kabul. The bushwhacker had targeted a hall where hundreds of scholars were sitting a test for university admission.Taliban leaders latterly criticized ISIS- K for the attack, though the group itself didn’t take responsibility.
