{UAH} IS blast: Afghan capital buries victims of huge bombing

Jabby/Afuwa Kasule,

Whats your comment on this mact of barbaririty amd medieval savagery?
Please nore the victims are also Muslims, but the Islamic
Fundamentalists have decided that only they are the true muslims.
Intolerance is at the heart of Islam, a fact I am always been pointing
out and which the two of you deny, pretending instead to hide behind
your obtuse illusion that Islam is a religion of peace. What Peace?
Peace of the Grave yard perhaps as clearly demonstarted here. You are
fee to continue wearing your masks of self-delusion..

Bobby

Kabul IS blast: Afghan capital buries victims of huge bombing
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Graves are dug in Kabul, 24 JulyImage copyrightAHMAD SHAFAI
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Graves had to be dug out of the parched ground

Funerals have taken place in Kabul for victims of Saturday's suicide
bomb attack claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), which killed 80
people.

Bodies were still being collected from morgues as the first burials
were conducted in the west of the city.
The bomber targeted a protest march by members of the Hazara minority,
Shia Muslims reviled by IS, a Sunni group.
President Ashraf Ghani has led prayers for the dead and Afghanistan is
observing a day of national mourning.
Some families were still searching for missing relatives on Sunday,
gathering outside hospitals to read the names posted on the walls, and
checking morgues.
One family told the BBC they had four people still unaccounted for.
Islamic State group:

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Mourners could be seen brushing down earth over the graves of victims
in a report by the Associated Press news agency.

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Media captionEyewitness Sabira Jan: "I saw many people killed"
On a hilltop, a digger was used to prepare for further interments.

The government banned all public gatherings and demonstrations for 10
days after Saturday's attack, which also wounded at least 230 people.
Thousands of Hazaras had been protesting in in Deh Mazang Square over
a new power line, saying its route bypassed provinces in central
Afghanistan where many of them live.
A funeral in Kabul, 24 JulyImage copyrightEHSANULLAH AMIRI
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Wall Street Journal reporter Ehsanullah Amiri took this photo of a
funeral in Kabul on Sunday
Preparation for digging graves on a hilltop in the west of Kabul, 24 July

Graves were dug on a hilltop in western Kabul
Injured survivors in a Kabul hospital, 24 JulyImage copyrightEPA

At least 230 people were wounded

The victims

Few details were immediately known about the dead.
One of those killed was an Afghan journalist, Hussiani Mohammadi,
according to fellow reporter Bilal Sarwary.

An unnamed victim had been the sole bread winner of his family, his
cousin, Sayed Mohammad, told Reuters news agency after finding the
man's sandals in a pile of bloodied personal effects. He was killed
along with three other relatives, Mr Mohammad said.
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An Afghan intelligence source told the BBC that an IS commander named
Abo Ali had sent three bombers from Nangarhar province to carry out
the attack.
It appears that only one attacker managed to detonate his explosives.
The belt of the second failed to explode and the third attacker was
killed by security forces, the source said.

Speaking at a hospital, one protester, Sabira Jan, described what had
happened: "We were holding a peaceful demonstration when I heard a
bang and then everyone was escaping and yelling.
"I saw many people were killed and most of them were covered with
blood. There was nobody to help the victims. Policemen were looking at
us, and after that I heard gunshots, then I don't know what happened."

President Ghani vowed to take revenge against those responsible for
the attack, which was also condemned by the Taliban, Afghanistan's
most prominent Islamist militant group, who accused IS of seeking to
start a civil war.
A relative (C) is comforted as he weeps alongside unseen shoes and
other belongings of those who were killed in the twin suicide attack,
at a mosque in Kabul, 24 JulyImage copyrightAFP
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Mourners broke down as they sifted through victims' belongings on Sunday
The UN mission in Afghanistan described the attack as a "war crime".
The Hazaras, who live mainly in the centre of the country, have long
complained of discrimination. During Taliban rule in the late 1990s,
many of them fled to Pakistan, Iran and Tajikistan.

Some Hazaras were furious at both the government and their own
political leaders who, they said, had exploited the grievances of
their community at longstanding discrimination to shore up their own
power bases.

"They sold us and we will never forget this," mourner Ghulam Abbas
told Reuters. "They've built skyscrapers for themselves and their
families from our blood."
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Who are the Hazaras?

Of Mongolian and Central Asian descent

Mainly practise Shia Islam, in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and Pakistan
Thought to be the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan
Estimates suggest they make up 15-20% of Afghanistan's population,
which is thought to be about 30 million
At least 600,000 Hazaras live in Pakistan, most of them in Quetta
Legend has it they are descendants of Genghis Khan and his soldiers,
who invaded Afghanistan in the 13th Century

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