Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Shi’ite cultural centre and news agency Thursday in the Afghan capital that killed dozens of people attending a conference.
Ismail Kawosi, a spokesman for the ministry of public health, said 41 people had been killed and 48 wounded in the latest in a series of attacks on media organizations in Kabul.
The attack, which involved at least three explosions, occurred during a morning panel discussion on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Sunni-majority Afghanistan at the Tabian Social and Cultural Center, with many of those attending students, witnesses said.
It was also the latest in a series of attacks on Shi’ite targets by Islamic State, which claimed responsibility in an online statement.
The floors of the center, at the basement level, were covered in blood as wailing survivors and relatives picked through the debris, while windows of the news agency, on the second floor, were all shattered.