Kabul: The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Monday that the death toll in a suicide attack on an education center in the Afghan capital last week has risen to at least 43. On Friday, in a gender-segregated study hall in the historically oppressed Shia Muslim Hazara community's neighborhood of Kabul, a suicide bomber detonated himself next to women.

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"43 people killed. 83 injured. Most of the victims were girls and young women, according to a tweet by the UN mission, which said more deaths were feared.
As hundreds of students took a practice test to prepare for an entrance exam to enter the university, the bomb went off.

The Daesh organization, which views Shias as heretics, has carried out several deadly attacks in the area targeting girls, schools and mosques, but no group has so far claimed responsibility.
According to Taliban officials, 25 people were killed and 33 others were injured in the attack.

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After the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan last year, a two-decade war against the Western-backed government came to an end, and violence declined significantly. However, security has recently begun to deteriorate.

Extremist extremists have often attempted to downplay protests against their regime as they are accused of failing to protect minorities.
Friday's attack was followed by sporadic demonstrations led by women in Kabul and other cities.

About 50 women marched to the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, the scene of the attack, on Saturday to say, "Stop the Hazara massacre, being Shia is not a crime." Taliban forces often opened fire in the air and beat up protesters to disperse the rallies. Thousands of Afghans have been the target of frequent attacks in this Sunni-majority country.

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They have been targets of persecution since the Taliban's war against the former US-backed government, as well as Daesh, which views Shias as heretics.Before it came under Taliban control in May last year, three bombs exploded near his school in Dasht-e-Barchi, killing at least 85 people, mostly girls, and injuring more than 300.

Again, no single group took credit, but a year earlier, Daesh claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that claimed 24 lives at an educational facility in the same area.