BREAKDOWN
The Home Office said at least 25 people, most of them students, were killed in the blasts.
Explosions near a school in the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 25 people on Saturday and injured dozens more, the interior ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said at least 52 people, mostly students, were injured in the blast.
He did not specify the cause or the target of the explosion.
Health ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastagir Nazari said that so far 46 people have been taken to hospitals.
Angry crowds attacked ambulances and even beat health workers, Nazari said. He implored residents to cooperate and allow ambulances free access to the site.
Kabul has been on high alert since Washington last month announced its intention to withdraw all US troops by 9/11, with Afghan officials saying the Taliban had stepped up their attacks across the country.
No group has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s explosion.
It took place in the western part of Kabul, a heavily Muslim Shiite neighborhood that has been frequently attacked by ISIS fighters over the years.
Filio Kontrafouri of Al Jazeera, reporting from Kabul, said the attack took place around 5:30 p.m. Kabul time.
“This is the time when the students were finishing their classes and going home, and we’re talking about a hundred students who were going to schools at that time,” she said.
She said eyewitnesses reported three consecutive explosions, and “they were talking about girls panicking and running, crying, calling their mothers as others tried to transfer as much as they could to the city. hospital”.
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