Suicide bombers kill dozens at Shiite center in Afghan capital

아프간 카불서 연쇄 폭탄 테러…41명 사망•84명 부상 At least 41 people have been killed and more than 80 wounded in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The Islamic State group said it was behind Thursday's attack, which targeted a Shiite cultural center. Ro Aram has the details. Many students were attending a seminar at the Tabian Social and Cultural Center to mark the 38th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The floor of the center, at the basement level, was covered in blood as wailing survivors and relatives picked through the debris, while windows of the Afghan Voice news agency, on the second floor, were all shattered. The local Shiite leader said more bombs went off just outside the center as people fled, although those follow-up explosions did not cause any fatalities. The center was housed in a simple building surrounded by mud-brick homes in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, home to some of Kabul’s poorest residents. The Islamic State group said in an online statement that the center had received support from Iran, which has provided military and financial aid to the Syrian government as well as regional Shiite militias battling IS in recent years. The group is now largely confined to a few remote patches of territory in Syria, but it retains the ability to inspire and carry out attacks further afield. Thursday's bombings were the latest in a series of attacks by IS against Shiite targets in Kabul since the start of last year, which has left nearly 700 people killed or wounded, according to UN figures. Ro Aram, Arirang News. Arirang News Facebook:   / arirangtvnews   ------------------------------------------------------------ [Subscribe Arirang Official YouTube] ARIRANG TV:    / arirang   ARIRANG RADIO:    / music180arirang   ARIRANG NEWS:    / arirangnews   ARIRANG K-POP:    / arirangworld   ARIRANG ISSUE:    / arirangtoday   ARIRANG CULTURE:    / arirangkorean   ------------------------------------------------------------ [Visit Arirang TV Official Pages] Facebook:   / arirangtv   Twitter:   / arirangworld   Instagram:   / arirangworld   Homepage: http://www.arirang.com ------------------------------------------------------------ [Arirang K-Pop] YouTube:    / arirangworld   Facebook:   / arirangkpop   Google+: http://plus.google.com/+arirangworld