Many of the victims at the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school in a Shiite district west of Kabul were female students between the ages of 11 and 15, according to The Associated Press.
“I was with my classmate, we were leaving the school, when suddenly an explosion happened, ” Zahra, 15, told the AP.
At the high school, girls and boys study in three shifts, Reuters reported.