An injured man is being brought on a stretcher to a hospital following a blast outside a school in the west Kabul district of Dasht-e-Barchi on May 8, 2021, that killed at least 25 people and wounded scores more including students, officials said. (P KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb exploded near a girls' school in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, many of them young pupils between 11 and 15 years old.
The Taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility.Ambulances evacuated the wounded as relatives and residents screamed at authorities near the scene of the blast at Syed Al-Shahda school, in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said.