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Kabul, Aug. 15 (TNS): Forty-eight people have been killed and 67 injured in a bomb explosion at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, the country’s health ministry says.<\/p>\n
Police say a suicide bomber walked into the centre while teaching was under way and detonated his bomb belt.<\/p>\n
Many of those killed are believed to be teenagers who were getting extra tuition as they prepared for university entrance exams.<\/p>\n
The Taliban has denied involvement.<\/p>\n
This latest attack came hours after the Taliban said it could no longer guarantee safe passage for Red Cross staff working in Afghanistan, amid a row over the treatment of Taliban prisoners in a jail in Kabul.<\/p>\n
The attack on the education centre took place in a mostly Shia Muslim neighbourhood of Kabul.<\/p>\n
The Shia community in Afghanistan has been repeatedly targeted by Sunni Muslim extremists of the Islamic State group, which views the Shia practice of Islam as heretical.<\/p>\n
“We can confirm the attack was caused by a suicide bomber on foot. The bomber detonated himself inside the education centre,” police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.<\/p>\n
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