Blasts at school in Afghan capital killed six, wounded 11: police

KABUL (HRNW) – Two bomb blasts at a boys’ school in the Afghan capital on Tuesday killed at least six people, a police official said.

The blasts in a neighbourhood populated mainly by Hazara Shiite Muslims “killed six people and wounded 11 others”, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran told .

Khalid Zadran told that two improvised explosive devices were placed outside the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in the capital’s western Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood.

Tuesday’s blasts occurred as students were coming out of their morning classes, a witness told .

Victims were taken to hospital, but Taliban fighters kept journalists from the premises.

Attacks on public targets have largely diminished since the Taliban seized power in August last year, but the Islamic State group continues to operate across the country.