Funerals begin for 80 killed in suicide attack during protest in Kabul
KABUL — Members of Afghanistan’s Hazara minority began the task of burying more than 80 people killed in Saturday’s suicide attack in Kabul, with many blaming political leaders for security failures that led to the massacre.Officials said graves were dug into a hillside in the west of Kabul and bodies were brought up throughout Sunday afternoon but, with large public assemblies banned for security reasons, there was no mass funeral.The attack on Saturday, against a demonstration by the mainly Shiite Hazara, was among the worst in Afghanistan since the fall of the former Taliban regime in 2001.It was claimed by the Islamic State, raising fears of a new escalation and the kind of sectarian violence that has so far been relatively uncommon.Earlier, relatives of some of those killed had searched through a bloodied assortment of belongings left after the twin blasts tore into a demonstration in which thousands were protesting against the route of a planned power transmission line."Those ...
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