{"id":3096,"date":"2020-10-25T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2020-10-25T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:00:24","slug":"at-least-30-killed-in-saturdays-blast-in-western-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"At Least 30 Killed in Saturday&#8217;s Blast in Western Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(TOLO News): The incident happened in the Pul-e-Khoshk area of Dasht-e-Barchi after a suicide bomber detonated explosives close to the center, according to officials.\u00a0 The Interior Ministry said that the suicide bomber was identified by security guards at the center and detonated his explosives before reaching his target.\u00a0 \u201cMost of the victims are young and teenagers,\u201d according to officials.\u00a0 The Taliban rejected involvement in the attack.\u00a0The Kawsar educational center is located in a narrow street. The suicide bomber who was trying to enter the center was reportedly identified in the middle of the street in the west of Kabul, according to eyewitnesses.\u00a0 Eyewitnesses said dozens of students were in their classes when the attack happened.\u00a0 \u00a0A number of nearby houses were also damaged in the attack.\u00a0 A funeral ceremony will be held on Sunday for the victims of the attack.\u00a0 The family of the victims have urged the government to undertake a \u201cserious investigation\u201d into the attack.\u00a0 A similar explosion happened in the west of Kabul in \u00a02018, killing 48 students.\u00a0 The attack was widely condemned<br \/>\n<strong>Condemnation of the attack \u00a0<\/strong>US Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Ross Wilson condemned the Kabul attack, saying: &#8220;Afghans want a peaceful future and reject this violence, and Americans stand with them.&#8221;\u00a0 Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council of National Reconciliation in a statement condemned the suicide attack, saying it is inhuman and against Islamic principles and values.\u00a0 Sharhzad Akbar, the chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said: \u201cAfter a week of horrific violence across Afghanistan\u201d the news on the attack \u201cdrains every last ounce of energy and hope.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Pakistani envoy Mohammad Sadiq said Pakistan \u201ccondemns in the strongest possible terms the inhuman terrorist attack outside an educational center in Kabul.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThis has been a deadly weekend for schoolchildren in Afghanistan\u201d, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cEarlier today, an attack outside an educational center in Kabul\u2019s Dasht-e-Barchi area left 16 people dead and 45 people injured, many of them women and children,\u201d Fore said. \u201cAttacks on education are a grave violation of children\u2019s rights. Schools must be places of safety and learning, not death traps,\u201d she added. UNAMA condemned Saturday&#8217;s blast, calling it &#8220;a callous and senseless war crime,&#8221; and the UN mission urged redoubled efforts to stem violence and focus on peace talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOLO News): The incident happened in the Pul-e-Khoshk area of Dasht-e-Barchi after a suicide bomber detonated explosives close to the center, according to officials.\u00a0 The Interior Ministry said that the suicide bomber was identified by security guards at the center and detonated his explosives before reaching his target.\u00a0 \u201cMost of the victims are young and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}