At least 19 people were killed and 24 others wounded Wednesday by a blast at a madrassa in Afghanistan’s northern city of Aybak, a doctor at a local hospital told AFP.
KABUL, Afghanistan –
The doctor in Aybak, about 200 kilometres north of the capital Kabul, said the casualties were mostly youngsters.A provincial official confirmed the blast at Al Jihad madrassa, an Islamic religious school, but could not provide casualty figures. Images and video circulating on social media — which could not immediately be verified — showed Taliban fighters picking their way through bodies strewn across the floor of a building.The Aybak doctor said some critically wounded patients had been moved to better-equipped hospitals in Mazar-i-Sharif, which is about 120 kilometres away by road.
Aybak is a small but ancient provincial capital that came to prominence as a caravan stopping post for traders during the fourth and fifth centuries when it was also an important Buddhist centre. No group claimed responsibility for that bombing, but the Taliban later blamed the Islamic State and said it had killed several ringleaders.
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