Kabul: At least 15 people died and 34 were injured in the accident Kabul Firing of bullets after two explosions at Afghanistan’s largest military hospital, witnesses and Taliban officials said on Tuesday.
Interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti said the blast occurred at the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan Hospital. “Security forces have been deployed in the area,” he said on Twitter.
Photos shared by residents showed plumes of smoke billowing over the blasts area near the former diplomatic area in the Wazir Akbar Khan area in central Kabul.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the official Bakhtar news agency quoted witnesses as saying that several Islamic State fighters broke into the hospital and clashed with security forces.
Includes a growing list of attacks and killings since the blasts Taliban He completed his victory over the previous Western-backed government in August, undermining his claim to restore security in Afghanistan after decades of war.
Islamic State, which has carried out a series of attacks on mosques and other targets since Kabul was captured by the Taliban in August, carried out a complex attack on a 400-bed hospital in 2017 that killed more than 30 people .
A health worker at the hospital, who managed to flee the scene, said he heard a loud explosion, followed by a few minutes of gunfire. He said that about ten minutes later there was a second major explosion.
He said it was not clear whether the explosions and bullets were inside the sprawling hospital complex, Afghanistan’s largest military hospital.
Interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti said the blast occurred at the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan Hospital. “Security forces have been deployed in the area,” he said on Twitter.
Photos shared by residents showed plumes of smoke billowing over the blasts area near the former diplomatic area in the Wazir Akbar Khan area in central Kabul.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the official Bakhtar news agency quoted witnesses as saying that several Islamic State fighters broke into the hospital and clashed with security forces.
Includes a growing list of attacks and killings since the blasts Taliban He completed his victory over the previous Western-backed government in August, undermining his claim to restore security in Afghanistan after decades of war.
Islamic State, which has carried out a series of attacks on mosques and other targets since Kabul was captured by the Taliban in August, carried out a complex attack on a 400-bed hospital in 2017 that killed more than 30 people .
A health worker at the hospital, who managed to flee the scene, said he heard a loud explosion, followed by a few minutes of gunfire. He said that about ten minutes later there was a second major explosion.
He said it was not clear whether the explosions and bullets were inside the sprawling hospital complex, Afghanistan’s largest military hospital.
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