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Afghanistan was preparing to celebrate on Monday 100th anniversary of independence from Britain.
These celebrations on the August 19 were curtailed out of respect for the blast victims, the president’s office said.
The Sunday blast left 63 dead and more than 180 wounded mostly children and women interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said as grieving families thronged to Kabul’s crowded cemeteries.
They were attending a wedding ceremony in Kabul. Both the bride and groom survived.
“I won’t ever be able to forget this, however much I try,” the groom, Mirwais Elmi, told the TOLOnews channel.
He said his cousin and some friends had been killed with the bride’s father saying, 14 members of his family were killed.
“We want peace, not such brutal suicide attacks,” said Ahmad Khan, who was burying a relative.
Pictures on social media from the scene of the blast showed bodies strewn amid overturned tables and chairs, with dark blood stains on the wedding hall carpet.
