Massoud Hossaini
Tarana Akbari, 12, screams in fear
moments after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowd at the Abul
Fazel Shrine in Kabul on December 06, 2011. 'When I could stand up, I
saw that everybody was around me on the ground, really bloody. I was
really, really scared,' said the Tarana, whose name means 'melody' in
English. Out of 17 women and children from her family who went to a
riverside shrine in Kabul that day to mark the Shiite holy day of
Ashura, seven died including her seven-year-old brother Shoaib. More
than 70 people lost their lives in all, and at least nine other members
of Tarana's family were wounded. The blasts has prompted fears that
Afghanistan could see the sort of sectarian violence that has pitched
Shiite against Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Pakistan. The attack was the
deadliest strike on the capital in three years. President Hamid Karzai
said this was the first time insurgents had struck on such an important
religious day. The Taliban condemned the attack, which some official
viewed as sectarian. On the same day, a second bomber attacked in the
northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Karzai said on December 11 that a total
of 80 people were killed in both attacks. Published December 7, 2011
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