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.
