Taliban Say Suicide Blast in Kabul Kills 19

File Photo: Medical staff move a wounded youth on a stretcher inside a hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, April 19, 2022. (AFP)

A suicide bombing struck an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief said.

The explosion inside the center in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul took place in the morning hours, said the spokesman, Khalid Zadran. He did not have further details in the immediate aftermath of the bombing.