Takfiris Killed 61 Hazara Shias Injuring 207 in Twin Explosions in Kabul

KABUL: Takfiris, possibly Afghan Talibans, in twin explosions targeted innocent shia protesters in Kabul killing at least 61 people leaving 207 injured, Health Ministry spokesman Ismail Kawusi says. Thousands of members of the Afghan Hazara Shia community were marching through the city during the planned protest for a controversial new power line project.

Photographs posted on social media showed bodies, apparently at the site of the explosion, close to where thousands of people had been protesting over the route of a planned multimillion dollar power line.

“It was just at the last minutes of the demonstration when suddenly an explosion happened. Eye witnesses are telling us that scores of people have been injured,” reportes media from Kabul. 

The government already had intimation of a threat in the procession, yet the afghan government failed to protect innocent protesters, who were using their democratic right in a peaceful protest. The same government had installed road blocks which made it more difficult for ambulances to reach the injured after the deadly attack.

“Ambulances cannot reach the area of the explosion because that part of the road was blocked with containers by the government to prevent the demonstrators from coming to the diplomatic area of the city or get close to the presidential palace. Heavy security measures were taken. 

Yesterday government officials warned they were getting information that an explosion could happen. a source said.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the blast, but it comes in the middle of the Taliban’s annual summer offensive, which the insurgents are ramping up after a brief lull during the recent holy fasting month of Ramadan.

The demonstrators had gathered to demand that a multi-million-dollar power line pass through their electricity-starved province of Bamiyan, one of the most deprived areas of Afghanistan with a large Hazara population.

The 500-kilovolt TUTAP power line, which would connect the Central Asian nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan with electricity-hungry Afghanistan and Pakistan, was originally set to pass through the central province.

But the government re-routed it through the mountainous Salang pass north of Kabul, saying the shorter route would speed up the project and save millions of dollars.