68 Afghans including schoolgirls killed in heavy car bomb

Amin Alemi
Press TV, Kabul

Afghanistan is witnessing a new wave of violence that takes the lives of Afghans including civilians on a daily basis. 

Dozens of civilians most of them school girls died and over 100 others were wounded in Kabul after a deadly car bomb followed by twin bomb explosions went off in front of a school. A similar assault also claimed the lives of 30 school students in eastern Logar province just a few days ago .

The blast occurred in front of a school in the Shia majority neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi in western Kabul. The victims of the attack were mostly female students headed on their way back home after finishing school.

Qurnan Ali was in his shop when the incident happened .He says just after the blast, he rushed to the scene to look for her daughter but almost after 10 hours, he found her daughter in Kabul’s Emergency Hospital for War Victims.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said the Taliban militant group was responsible for the attack. The Taliban, however, did not claim responsibility for the blast.

The bomb attack came a week after remaining US forces began withdrawing from Afghanistan. Nearly two decades of the US military presence in Afghanistan has failed to quell violence and ensure security in the country.

Many here believe that terrorist groups are taking the revenge of their recent hard defeats in battles across southern and northern parts of the country.

Kabul has witnessed several deadly terrorist attacks on civilian targets mainly on educational centers over the recent years. The recent attack on a high school there has brought vast condemnations by locals, the government, a number of independent rights bodies and some Kabul based foreign embassies including Iranian embassy.

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