Funeral of one of 24 victims of Afghanistan attack

One of the victims of Saturday's suicide attack on an education centre in the Afghan capital was laid to rest on Sunday.

The attack in a heavily Shiite neighbourhood of western Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood left 24 dead and 57 wounded, many of them young students.

The Islamic State (IS) group’s local affiliate claimed credit for the attack, saying one of its fighters used a suicide bomb vest in the assault.

The Interior Ministry said the attacker was trying to enter the centre when he was stopped by security guards.

Within Afghanistan, IS has launched large-scale attacks on minority Shiites, Sikhs and Hindus, whom it views as apostates.

Hundreds of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan fled the country in September after a gunman loyal to the militant group killed 25 members of the shrinking community in an attack on their share a place of worship in Kabul.

The US signed a peace deal with the Taliban - who rejected any connection with the attack - in February, opening up a path toward withdrawing American troops from the conflict.

U.S. officials said the deal would also help refocus security efforts on fighting the Islamic State, which is a rival of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

There has been an upsurge in violence between Taliban and Afghan forces in the country recently, even as representatives from the two warring sides begin their own peace talks in Doha to end the decades-long war in Afghanistan.

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