ISIS claims triple suicide attack killing 80 in Kabul

The death toll in Saturday's bombing in Kabul has risen to 80 with more than 260 wounded from an attack by three ISIS suicide bombers on a demonstration by members of the minority Hazara minority group, near the Afghan Parliament building and Kabul University. Accounting for up to one-fifth of Afghanistan's population, the Farsi-speaking Hazaras who mainly live in central Afghanistan, suffer discrimination as Shiites at the hands of the Sunni majority.

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