<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The death count from a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said today. Shiite Hazara women who bore the brunt of the attack staged a defiant protest against the genocide of their minority community.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">On 30th September, a suicide attacker blew himself up in a Kabul study hall as hundreds of pupils were taking tests in preparation for university entrance exams in the city's Dasht-e-Barchi area.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The latest casualty figures from the attack number at least 35 fatalities, with an additional 82 wounded, said the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a statement. More than 20 of the killed were girls and women, it said.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The UN Mission's casualty figure is higher than the toll Kabul authorities have given.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Since returning to power last August, security has been a sensitive topic for the Taliban and the hardliners have often been keen to downplay attacks challenging their regime. Meanwhile today, dozens of Hazara women defied a Taliban ban on rallies to protest the latest bloodshed in their community.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">No group has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In May last year, before the Taliban's return to power, at least 85 people — mainly girls — were killed and about 300 were wounded when three bombs exploded near their school in Dasht-e-Barchi.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>