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Afghanistan: ISIS Bombing Kills More Than 80 Protesters in Kabul

HeadlineJul 25, 2016

Afghanistan observed a national day of mourning Sunday, a day after a suicide bomber killed at least 80 people demonstrating peacefully in Kabul. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The demonstrators were asking the Afghan government to build a high-power electrical transmission line in the impoverished northern province of Bamyan. This is Jawad Rezayee, a relative of one of the bombing victims.

Jawad Rezayee: “Yesterday’s incident was a tragic incident against the movement of justice. This is the first attack against a justice movement. We have lost many of our family and friends here. We have come here to bury our martyred and name the hill 'the martyrs' hill.’”

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