Kabul attack: Families bury schoolchildren of blast that killed 50

Some of the children killed outside a secondary school in Kabul on Saturday have been buried – as other relatives are still searching for the missing.

More than 50 people – mostly girls – died in the explosions that occurred as students were leaving the building.

No-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi – an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants.

Afghan government officials blamed Taliban militants for the attack, but the group denied any involvement.

Nobel Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai – who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 – posted about the “horrendous attack” on Twitter.

In Kabul, terrorists committed a horrendous attack on school children, most of them girls. The escalation of terrorism is alarming for peace and democracy in Afghanistan. World leaders must unite to safeguard school-children. My heart is with the #Kabul school victims’ families.

— Malala (@Malala) May 9, 2021

“My heart is with the Kabul school victims’ families,” she wrote.