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The Guardian - UK
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Deepa Parent

Taliban beat women protesting against school bombing, say witnesses

Taliban forces disperse women who were protesting over a suicide bomb attack
Taliban forces disperse women who were protesting over a suicide bomb attack at a Kabul educational centre that left 35 dead on Friday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Women protesting against the suicide bombing of a school in Afghanistan, which killed 35 young Hazara women and girls on Friday, have been beaten and shot at by Taliban according to witnesses.

Dozens of women from the Hazara community protested against the attack on the Kaaj educational centre in Dasht-e-Barchi, a neighbourhood home to the Shia Hazara community in western Kabul.

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