The deadliest attack on Kabul has left about 80 people dead and 230 gravely injured. In the 15 years, that Afghanistan has been shrouded in the terror of civil war, this is the most violent explosion that has taken place in the region , state reports.
A peaceful protest that was carried out in Kabul did not let the Afghan capital remain peaceful. Hazara Ethnic community, of Afghanistan was carrying out a demonstration, on Saturday in the capital. This community of Shiite Muslims or Sunnis wanted a regional power line to be run through the Bamiyan area, a region in Central Highlands predominated by Hazaras in plenty. The demonstration was targeted by two suicide bombers, though one of them was taken down by the Police before the explosives attached to his body could be detonated.
The responsibility of the suicide has been taken by the 
via Amaq, the news agency of the group. The heinous act has turned the peaceful protest into a bloody scene of carnage and horror. Nearly 80 people have died and about 230 lie wounded in this extremist attack. Media reports bloody parts of bodies strewn all across the square. This is the first time that Kabul has been stuck by the ISIS, and the media coverage highlights dead bodies and screaming survivors splattered with blood. Was this a bid to stroke the ethnic tensions?
The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s spokesman, Haroon Chakhansuri, has made a statement that “three city district police chiefs were injured and another three security personnel were killed.” The social media is loaded with blood donation requests for the poorly resourced hospitals in the city. The explosion was set off by the bombs attached to the belts of two suicide bombers and the explosion had left the Shia gathering battered and torn.
According to Ghani’s statement, “Opportunist terrorists went among the protesters and set off explosions that killed and wounded a number of our countrymen, including security and defense personnel.”
Reports say that “the demonstration was led by grassroots activists and Karim Khalili, the country’s former vice-president.”
