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DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. July 23, 2016, 7:19 PM (IDT)
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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