At Least 37 Killed As Suicide Attacker Hits Kabul School • Channels Television

At least 37 people, the majority of them students, were killed when a suicide blast ripped through a school in a Shiite area of Kabul on Wednesday, officials said, the latest assault on Afghanistan’s war-weary capital.

Around a dozen, ambulances rushed to the Mawoud education centre in the western part of the city, where students and relatives described pulling bloodied victims from the rubble of a classroom that had been crowded with teenagers preparing to go to university.

“At around 4 pm this afternoon, a suicide attacker who had strapped explosives to his body detonated himself inside the Mawoud education centre,” police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.

“In the explosion 37 people were killed, more than 40 injured,” he said, adding that the “absolute majority” of them had been students.

He warned the toll could rise. Other officials have put it at as high as 48 people killed, with scores more injured.

It was not clear how many students were at the centre at…