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IS Attack on Voter Registration Centre

Suicide blast kills 57 in Kabul

AFP, Kabul
An Islamic State suicide bomber yesterday killed at least 57 people including women and children and wounded 119 outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul in the latest attack on election preparations.
The assaults underscore growing concerns about security in the lead-up to legislative elections scheduled for October 20, which are seen as a testrun for next year's presidential poll.
There were anguished and angry scenes at Isteqlal Hospital where many of the victims were taken, with relatives criticising the Afghan government for failing to protect their loved ones.
"Our patience is running out. This government should take responsibility for the lives of all these innocent people lost every day,” a man called Hussain, whose cousin was wounded in the blast, told AFP.
"Nobody will go to vote anymore.'
The health ministry gave the latest toll for the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State group via its propaganda arm Amaq.
The interior ministry had earlier said 48 people were killed and 112 wounded. Its spokesman was not immediately available to comment on the new toll.
“They are civilians, including women and children," interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said earlier.
The centre in a heavily Shia-populated neighbourhood in the west of the city was also being used by people to register for national identification certificates, which they need in order to sign up to vote.
“1 found myself covered in blood, with dead people -- women and children - around me," said Ali Rasuli, who had been standing in a queue outside the centre when he saw a "fireball" in front of him. He was taken to hospital with leg and abdominal wounds.
Sheets of paper and passportsized photos lay scattered amid shattered glass and pools of blood on the street near badly damaged cars - grim evidence of the force of the blast.
"This senseless violence shows the cowardice and inhumanity of the enemies of democracy and peace in Afghanistan," US ambassador John Bass wrote on Twitter. Nato and the United Nations also condemned the bombing.
The last major attack in Kabul was on March 21 when an IS suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd celebrating the Persian New Year holiday and killed at least 33 people.
Ariana TV showed angry crowds shouting “Death to the government!" and "Death to the Taliban!"
A wounded man in a hospital bed wept as he told the network: "I don't know where my daughters are. God damn the attackers!"
A witness to the attack named Akbar told Tolo TV: "Now we know the government cannot provide us security: we have to get armed and protect ourselves."
Elsewhere, a roadside explosion in the northern province of Baghlan yesterday killed six people, including three women and two children.
President Ashraf Ghani condemned both attacks as "heinous".
Afghanistan began registering voters on April 14 for the long-delayed legislative elections. Over the next two months, authorities hope to register up to 14 million adults at more than 7,000 polling centres for the parliamentary and district council elections.
Officials have been pushing people to register amid fears a low turnout will undermine the credibility of the polls.