47 dead in Afghanistan suicide attack, landmine blasts
 

KABUL: Suicide bombers stormed a Shi´ite cultural centre and news agency in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing 41 people, including journalists, women and children, and wounding scores, many of them students attending a conference, while another blast in Balkh killed six shepherded children. Islamic State said in an online statement that it was responsible for the attack, the latest in a series the movement has claimed on Shi´ite targets in Kabul, saying the centre received support from Iran.
Waheed Majrooh, a spokesman for the ministry of public health, said 41 people, including four women and two children, had been killed and 84 wounded, most suffering from burns.The attack occurred during a morning panel discussion on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan at the Tabian Social and Cultural Centre, witnesses said.

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