Overview
- Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran confirmed late Monday that several students were seriously injured after a blast outside the private Shama-e Hidayat school in Dasht-e-Barchi and that response teams and investigators had arrived.
- Local witnesses and outlets reported the explosion happened as students were leaving class and that most of the injured were girls, with a witness saying about 30 people were taken to Alami Hospital.
- Kabul Now and TOLOnews reported the device was a hand grenade, a detail that other outlets have not independently verified and that authorities are still investigating.
- The Taliban government has not publicly commented and no group has claimed responsibility, but the strike in the mainly Hazara Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood revives fears of sectarian attacks given ISIS-K’s past operations there.
- The blast adds to broader concerns about explosive threats to civilians in Afghanistan, from deliberate attacks to leftover wartime ordnance, and could deepen fear, disrupt schooling for children in the area, and prompt further local and international scrutiny.