Dr. Mohammad Dawood Danish, the head of the Mohammad Ali Jinnah hospital in Kabul, said that 20 bodies and more than 40 wounded people were transferred to his hospital. The presidential palace in Afghanistan blamed the killings on the Taliban, calling them “a crime against humanity,” in a statement. “I have lost count of attacks harming children. I have lost count of attacks on education,” Shaharzad Akbar, the chairwoman of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said on social media. “I have lost count of civilians killed even just this month.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2021 14:30 UTC