Afghans hold funeral for victims of Kabul school bomb blasts

Dozens of young girls were buried after a school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year.

Dozens of young girls have been buried at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in more than a year. A series of blasts outside the school on Saturday during a peak holiday shopping period killed more than 50 people, mostly female students, and wounded more than 100 in Dasht-e-Barchi, a west Kabul suburb populated mostly by Hazara Shia. The government blamed the Taliban for the carnage, but the armed group denied responsibility and issued a statement saying the country needed to “safeguard and look after educational centres and institutions”.