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Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 55 people and wounded more than 150, mostly female students, officials said.
A senior interior ministry official said that most of the casualties were students coming out of the Sayed ul Shuhada school.
The blasts were caused by a car bomb and then mortars present inside the car, a high-ranking official, who requested anonymity, said.
A spokesman for the interior ministry, Tariq Arian, put the death toll at 30 and did not specify the cause or the target.
Ghulam Dastagir Nazari, spokesman for the health ministry, said 46 people had been taken to hospitals so far.
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Footage on TV channel ToloNews showed chaotic scenes outside the school, with books and school bags strewn across a bloodstained road, and residents rushing to help victims.
Kabul is on high alert since Washington announced plans last month to pull out all US troops by September 11, with Afghan officials saying the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country.
No group has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied the insurgent group’s involvement and condemned the incident.
The explosions took place in the western part of Kabul, a heavily Shiite Muslim neighbourhood that has frequently been attacked by Islamic State militants over the years.


The institution is a joint high school for girls and boys, who study in three shifts, the second of which is for female students, Najiba Arian, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education, said.
The wounded are mostly female students, she said.
“The horrendous attack in Dasht-i Barchi area in Kabul, is an despicable act of terrorism,” the European Union’s mission in Afghanistan said on Twitter.
“Targeting primarily students in a girls’ school, makes this an attack on the future of Afghanistan.”


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Most of the wounded were female students coming out of the Sayed ul Shuhada school in the Afghan capital
Kabul is on high alert since Washington announced plans last month to pull out all US troops by September 11



Most of the wounded were female students coming out of the Sayed ul Shuhada school in the Afghan capital.


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