A10 The BulleTin • Monday, May 10, 2021
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Death toll soars to 50 in school
bombing in Afghan capital
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Mariam Zuhaib/AP
Afghan men bury a victim of deadly bombings, which happened Saturday
near a school, at a cemetery west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. The
Interior Ministry said Sunday the death toll in the bombing at the entrance
to a girls’ school in the Afghan capital has soared to some 50 people, many
of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old, and the number of wounded
in Saturday’s attack climbed to more than 100.
terrorist attack in Kabul, an in-
humane action that struck so
many girls as they were com-
ing out of school.” He said. The
pontiff then added: “May God
give Afghanistan peace.”
The Dasht-e-Barchi area has
been hit by several incidents
of violence targeting minority
Shiites and most often claimed
by the Islamic State affiliate
operating in the country. No
one has yet claimed Saturday’s
bombings.
In this same neighborhood
in 2018, a school bombing
killed 34 people, mostly stu-
dents. In September 2018 a
wrestling club was attacked kill-
ing 24 people and in May 2020
a maternity hospital was bru-
tally attacked killing 24 people,
including pregnant women and
infants. And in October 2020,
the Kawsar-e-Danish tutoring
center was attacked, killing 30
people.
Most of the attacks were
claimed by the Islamic State af-
filiate operating in Afghanistan.
The radical Sunni Muslim
group has declared war on Af-
ghanistan’s Shiites. Washington
blamed IS for a vicious attack
last year in a maternity hospi-
tal in the same area that killed
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pregnant women and newborn
babies.
Soon after the bombing,
angry crowds attacked ambu-
lances and even beat health
workers as they tried to evac-
uate the wounded, Health
Ministry spokesman Ghulam
Dastigar Nazari said. He had
implored residents to cooperate
and allow ambulances free ac-
cess to the site.
Arian, the Interior Ministry
spokesman, blamed the attack
on the Taliban despite their de-
nials.
Bloodied backpacks and
schools books lay strewn out-
side the Syed Al-Shahda school.
In the morning, boys attend
classes in the sprawling school
compound and in the after-
noon, it’s girls’ turn.
On Sunday, Hazara leaders
from Dasht-e- Barchi met to
express their frustration with
the government failure to pro-
tect ethnic Hazaras, deciding
to cobble together a protection
force of their own from among
the Hazara community.
The force would be deployed
outside schools, mosques and
public facilities and would co-
operate with government se-
curity forces. The intention is
to supplement the local forces,
said Parliamentarian Ghulam
Hussein Naseri.
The meeting participants
decided that “there is not any
other way, except for people
themselves to provide their
own security alongside of the
security forces,” said Naseri,
who added that the govern-
ment should provide local Haz-
aras with weapons.
Naseri said Hazaras have
been attacked in their schools,
in their mosques and “it is their
right to be upset. How many
more families lose their loved
ones? How many more attacks
against this minority has to oc-
cur in this part of the city be-
fore something is done?”
One of the students fleeing
the school recalled the attack,
the girls’ screams of the girls,
the blood.
“I was with my classmate,
we were leaving the school,
when suddenly an explosion
happened, “ said 15-year-old
Zahra, whose arm had been
broken by a piece of shrapnel.
“Ten minutes later there was
another explosion and just a
couple of minutes later another
explosion,” she said. “Everyone
was yelling and there was blood
everywhere, and I couldn’t see
anything clearly.” Her friend
died.
Most of the dozens of injured
brought to the EMERGENCY
Hospital for war wounded in
the Afghan capital, “almost all
girls and young women be-
tween 12 and 20 years old,” said
Marco Puntin, the hospital’s
program coordinator in Af-
ghanistan.
In a statement following the
attack, the hospital, which has
operated in Kabul since 2000,
said the first three months of
this year have seen a 21 per cent
increase in war-wounded.
Even as IS has been degraded
in Afghanistan, according to
government and US officials, it
has stepped-up its attacks par-
ticularly against Shiite Muslims
and women workers.
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Historic Columbia River
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BY RAHIM FAIEZ
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan —
Grieving families buried their
dead Sunday following a hor-
rific bombing at a girls’ school
in the Afghan capital that killed
50 people, many of them pupils
between 11 and 15 years old.
The number of wounded in
Saturday’s attack climbed to
more than 100, said Interior
Ministry spokesman Tariq Ar-
ian. In the western neighbor-
hood of Dasht-e-Barchi, fam-
ilies buried their dead amid
angry recriminations at a gov-
ernment they said has failed to
protect them from repeated at-
tacks in the mostly Shiite Mus-
lim neighborhood.
“The government reacts af-
ter the incident, it doesn’t do
anything before the incident,”
said Mohammad Baqir, Al-
izada, 41, who had gathered to
bury his niece, Latifa, a Grade
11 student the Syed Al-Shahda
school.
Three explosions outside the
school entrance struck as stu-
dents were leaving for the day,
said Arian. The blasts targeted
Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazaras
who dominate the Dasht-e-
Barchi neighborhood, where
the bombings occurred. Most
Hazaras are Shiite Muslims.
The Taliban denied responsibil-
ity, condemning the attack and
the many deaths.
The first explosion came
from a vehicle packed with ex-
plosives, followed by two oth-
ers, said Arian, adding that the
casualty figures could still rise.
In the capital rattled by re-
lentless bombings, Saturday’s
attack was among the worst.
Criticism has mounted over
lack of security and growing
fears of even more violence as
the U.S. and NATO complete
their final military withdrawal
from Afghanistan.
At Vatican City, in his tradi-
tional Sunday remarks to faith-
ful in St. Peter’s Square, Pope
Francis cited the bombing. “Let
us pray for the victims of the
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64/31/s 72/34/s
Pendleton
65/42/0.00 71/42/s 76/46/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
68°
37°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
77/44
Rufus
Hermiston
73/45
76/44
76/46
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
75/47
70/41 71/46
63/34
Wasco
62/35 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Sunshine
Tillamook
60/33
73/44
71/42
Sandy
76/47
McMinnville
61/41
and a few clouds
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
68/43
Maupin
Government
72/42
around Monday;
65/38
59/35
Camp
73/42 Condon 69/44
Union
warmer. Clear to partly Lincoln City
66/41
59/36
65/36
Salem
57/45
Spray
cloudy Monday night.
Granite
Warm Springs
72/44
Madras
70/41
Albany
56/31
Newport
Baker City
72/38
72/37
Mitchell
56/42
69/41
65/31
WEST: Clouds and
Camp Sherman
65/39
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Unity
sunshine Monday and Yachats
70/36
69/34
68/42
Day
Prineville
62/32
warmer. Partly cloudy 56/44
Ontario
Sisters
71/35
Paulina
64/38
72/41
Monday night. Mostly Florence
Eugene 70/36
Bend Brothers 64/35
Vale
sunny Tuesday.
59/45
71/42
68/38
62/33
Sunriver
72/39
Nyssa
67/33
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
72/40
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
66/33
63/33
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
68/36
70/41
73/42
Fort
Rock
60/43
65/33
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
66/33
64/33
High: 72°
64/33
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at The Dalles
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
59/45
75/46
64/32
60/32
Low: 27°
Marsh
Lake
63/35
Port Orford
65/33
65/32
at Burns
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
61/49
Pass
66/35
Chiloquin
65/32
80/46
Rome
Medford
68/35
Gold Beach
78/45
68/34
59/50
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
64/36
75/45
68/33
60/31
65/51
64/31
Seaside
59/45
Cannon Beach
58/46
SUNDAY
69°
38°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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WATER REPORT
Ski resort
Mt. Bachelor
SATURDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
Low
FRIDAY
78°
43°
Very warm with sun and
some clouds
Mostly sunny and warm
ALMANAC
THURSDAY
80°
44°
73°
44°
Mainly clear
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
WEDNESDAY
A section of the Historic
Columbia River Highway that
has been closed since January
has reopened to the public,
the Oregon Department of
Transportation announced
this month, granting access to
one of the most scenic drives
in the region as well as sev-
eral waterfalls that have been
off-limits all spring.
The 6-mile closure be-
tween Bridal Veil and
Ainsworth State Park was
caused by recurring land-
slides triggered by heavy win-
ter rainstorms, exacerbated
by damage done to the land-
scape by the Eagle Creek Fire
in 2017, officials in the Co-
lumbia Gorge said.
The closure blocked access
to the Wahkeena and Horse-
tail Falls trailheads on either
side of Multnomah Falls, as
well as the Oneonta Trailhead
that had been closed since
December due to another
landslide. All three of those
trailheads are now back open,
ODOT said.
Additionally, the Oneo-
nta Trail is now open to the
Horsetail Falls Trail junction,
and the Gorge 400 Trail is
open between the Oneonta
Trail and Multnomah Falls,
officials said.
The Eagle Creek Trail,
which closed due to land-
slides in January only two
weeks after its long-antici-
pated reopening, remains
closed to the public.
Landslides are not unusual
in the Columbia Gorge, but
this winter they seemed to be
a bigger problem than nor-
mal. Officials said the partic-
ularly wet winter and damage
from the Eagle Creek fire are
to blame.
Engineers and geologists
working for ODOT said the
risk of slides should decrease
as we enter the drier months
of the year.
China says most rocket debris
burned up during reentry
Associated Press
BEIJING — China’s space
agency said a core segment
of its biggest rocket reentered
Earth’s atmosphere above the
Maldives in the Indian Ocean
and that most of it burned up
early Sunday.
Harvard astrophysicist Jon-
athan McDowell, who tracked
the tumbling rocket part, said
on Twitter, “An ocean reen-
try was always statistically the
most likely. It appears China
won its gamble … But it was
still reckless.”
People in Jordan, Oman
and Saudi Arabia reported
sightings of the Chinese
rocket debris on social media,
with scores of users posting
footage of the debris piercing
the early dawn skies over the
Middle East.
Usually, discarded rocket
stages reenter the atmosphere
soon after liftoff, normally
over water, and don’t go into
orbit.
The roughly 30-meter long
rocket stage is among the
biggest space debris to fall to
Earth. China’s space program,
with its close military links,
hasn’t said why it put the main
component of the rocket into
space rather than allowing it
to fall back to earth soon after
discharging its payload, as is
usual in such operations.
In March, debris from a
Falcon 9 rocket launched by
U.S. aeronautics company
SpaceX fell to Earth on the
Oregon Coast and in Wash-
ington.