Iran Press/Asia: The Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman, Najib Danish said that at least 35 other people were also wounded in the attack on Wednesday afternoon.
Afghan officials say the bomber targeted a private building in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-i Barcha where a group of young men and women, all high school graduates, were studying for university entrance exams.
The spokesman warned that the casualty tolls could rise further.
The explosion initially set off gunfire from Afghan guards in the area, leading to assumptions that there were more attackers but all indications were that only one bomber was involved.
Jawad Ghawari, a member of the city’s Shiite clerical council, blamed ISIS for the attack, which carried all the hallmarks of past ISIS attacks that have hit Shiites mosques, schools and cultural centers.
He says that in past two years, there were at least 13 attacks on the Shiite community in Kabul alone.
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Meanwhile, Six children – all girls - died as the result of an explosion in Laghman province on Wednesday, the governor’s media office said in a statement.
The rocket was unexploded remnants of war from insurgents, statement said.
Four of the six girls were from one family.
UNAMA’s latest report, for the six month to June of this year, stated that 1,355 child casualties (363 deaths and 992 injured) were recorded in this time.
This was a 15 percent drop compared to the same period in 2017.
However, as UNAMA pointed out there was a decrease in child casualties from explosive remnants of war, but that 89 percent of civilian casualties from explosive remnants of war were children.
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