The students had gathered for midday prayers at the madrassa in the town of Aybak when the bomb went off.
KABUL — A midday bombing at a boys’ religious school in Afghanistan’s northern Samangan province Wednesday left at least 10 students dead and scores injured, government officials said.
According to the website of the Etilaat Roz, a longtime Kabul newspaper now based abroad, the seminary had recently been opened by local Taliban officials in the building of a former teachers’ training college.
“The struggles and fighting which the religious scholars engaged in were for making such seminaries,” the governor of Balkh, Qudratullah Abu Hamza, himself a cleric, said at the ceremony. The members of the Taliban movement that first took power in 1996 in Kabul, and then ruled most of Afghanistan for five years, were the products of religious seminary training, particularly in northwest Pakistan. Their fiercest opponents came from northern Afghanistan, a region where Taliban authorities are now focusing their efforts on to train new acolytes.
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