At least 61 people were killed and another 207 wounded today (July 23, 2016) after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul -- the capital of Afghanistan -- by minority Shiite Hazaras, according to the Reuters website.
"Opportunist terrorists" took advantage of the protest to kill and wound "a number of our countrymen, including security and defense personnel," President Ashraf Ghani said.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack.
The protest was organized by ethnic Hazaras, a minority Shiite Muslim group in the predominantly Sunni Muslim country.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment