At least four killed in Kabul school blasts

On April 19, 2022, medical staff moved a wounded youth on a stretcher outside a hospital after three blasts rocked a boys' school in a Shiite Hazara neighborhood in Kabul. WAKIL KOHSAR AFP KABUL - Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials.

Many of the residents in the neighborhood belong to the Shia Hazara community, an ethnic and religious minority that is often targeted by Sunni militant groups, including Islamic State.

Three blasts have taken place in a high school, there are some casualties to our Shia people, said Khalid Zadran, spokesman for Kabul's commander.

A hospital nursing department head, who didn't say who they were, said at least four people had been killed and 14 wounded in the blasts.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which followed a lull in violence over the cold winter months and after foreign forces withdrew last year.

Since taking power in August, the Taliban claim that they have secured the country, but international officials and analysts say that the risk of a resurgence in militancy remains and the Islamic State militant group has claimed several major attacks.