Death toll rises to 58 in Kabul blast

SANAA, May 09 (YPA) – The death toll from an explosion outside a school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul has risen to 58, Afghan officials said on Sunday, with doctors struggling to provide medical care to at least 150 injured.

The incident started with a car bomb explosion outside Sayed -ul- Shuhada High School in the west of Kabul on Saturday afternoon and was followed by two rocket attacks as sources explained, TOLO News reported.

The Ministry of Interior says three blasts happened near the school: a car bomb attack and two IED blasts that were planted in the area.

The death toll in the blasts might increase, Tariq Arian, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said on Sunday.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accused the Taliban of carrying out the attack, but a spokesman for the group denied involvement in the attack

Taliban condemned any attacks on Afghan civilians, according to him.

The families of the victims blamed the Afghan government and Western powers for failing to put an end to the violence and war

Some families are still searching for their missing relatives on Sunday and gather outside hospitals to read the names hanging on the walls and inspect the morgue.

“All night we carried the bodies of girls and boys to the cemeteries,” said Mohammad Reza Ali, who was helping the families of the victims in a private hospital. We were invited for the injured.”

The attack comes a week after the start of the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan, scheduled to be completed by September 11.

E.M