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Two bomb blasts at a boys' school in the Afghan capital Kabul have killed at least six people and wounded more than 20, officials say. The blasts happened at the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in the Shia-dominated west of the city. The number of dead and wounded is likely to rise. The area in which the attacks took place - Dasht-e-Barchi - has frequently been the target of attacks by the local branch of the Islamic State group because of its largely Hazara Shia Muslim population, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. The Hazara are an ethnic and religious minority in Afghanistan

The 麻豆约拍's OS programme has spoken to a former pupil of the school. His brother is still a student there and escaped unharmed. He says his brother was in the classroom when the attack happened and then fled the school through the back gates. He speaks of his sorrow that the Hazara community are being targeted, and that their situation has worsened since the Taliban resumed control of Kabul in August 2021. He is planning on leaving Afghanistan to find a safer place for him and his family to live.

"Afghanistan has an uncertain future. The Hazara, I think, has no future here."

Photo: A Taliban guard outside a school in the aftermath of multiple bomb blasts in Kabul, 19 April 2022 Credit: EPA

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