ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 23 July 2016.
The protest march was by Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras who were demanding that a major regional electric power line be routed through their impoverished home province. Most of the Hazaras are Shia Muslims, while most Afghans are Sunni. This so-called TUTAP power line is backed by the Asian Development Bank with the involvement of countries like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The original plan had been to route the line through Bamiyan province, in the central highlands, where most of the country's Hazaras live but, that route was changed in 2013 by the previous Afghan government. Hence the unrest. Bamiyan province, populated mostly by Hazara people is poverty stricken, though it is largely peaceful and has potential as a tourist destination.
It seems two suicide bombers had targeted the demonstrators, who were gathering in Demazang Square as their four-hour protest march wound down. The police shot dead one of the suicide bombers.
There was an intelligence input that an attack on the march could take place, and had the organizers had been warned accordingly. Three district police chiefs on duty at the square were injured while three security personnel were killed.
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