Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital

People puts flowers outside a school after a deadly attack on Saturday, in Kabul, Afghanistan (Mariam Zuhaib/AP)

Grieving families buried their relatives following a 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 Arian.