Medical staff move a wounded youth on a stretcher inside a hospital after three blasts rocked a boys’ school in a Shiite Hazara neighbourhood in Kabul
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six people, including pupils, and injured 11.
The blasts took place in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood of Afghanistan’s capital on Tuesday, police said.
More casualties are feared following three blasts, which occurred in rapid succession, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran and the city’s Emergency Hospital.
Several of the wounded are in critical condition.
The explosions occurred in Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School and near Mumtaz Education Centre, both in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood.
There were no immediate reports of casualties at the Mumtaz Centre.
A number of pupils were injured, with the medical centre Emergency Hospital, tweeting that seven children had been hurt.
Many residents in the neighbourhood belong to the Shiite Hazara community, an ethnic and religious minority frequently targeted by Sunni militant groups, including Islamic State.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which followed a lull in violence over the cold winter months and after foreign forces withdrew last year.
However, the neighbourhood has been targeted in the past by Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate, which reviles Shiite Muslims as heretics.
Ruling party the Taliban say they have secured the country since taking power in August, but international officials and analysts say that the risk of a resurgence in militancy remains and the Islamic State militant group has claimed several major attacks.
