Daesh claims responsibility for Shia schoolchildren massacre in Kabul

Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that targeted an area of Shia Muslims in the Afghan capital Kabul that left many schoolchildren dead.

The takfiri terrorist group said through its affiliated news agency Amaq that its bomber, identified as Abdul Raouf al-Khorasani carried out the attack in Kabul.
Afghanistan’s health ministry has released a revised casualty toll, saying 34 students were killed and 57 were wounded.
The attack targeted a building where students were preparing to sit university entrance exams.
The bomber had walked into a classroom at a Shia educational centre in Dasht-e-Barchi.
Most of the victims were young men and women who had recently graduated from high school.
Authorities launched an investigation to determine how the bomber had managed to sneak into the compound in the area, which has its own guards.
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani condemned the “terrorist” attack, saying it “martyred and wounded the innocent”.
Attack targeted building where high school graduates were preparing to sit university entrance exams in Shia area of Kabul