Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has directed security forces to resume offensive operations against the Taliban, hours after separate attacks at a maternity hospital and a funeral ceremony left dozens of people dead
At least 11 were killed in a Tuesday morning attack on a Kabul hospital, including mothers, nurses and two newborn babies, Afghanistan's interior ministry said Tuesday.Shortly after, a suicide bomber targeted a funeral ceremony in Nangarhar, leaving at least 24 dead and 68 injured."I strongly condemn recent attacks in a hospital in Kabul and Nangarhar province which killed a number of innocent people including women and children," Ghani said on Tuesday in an address to the nation.
Special forces blocked the area around the hospital, which is located on the west side of Kabul in police district 13, after arriving on the scene, according to interior ministry spokeswoman Marwa Amini.The hospital massacre happened within hours of a suicide blast at a funeral ceremony in the country's Nangarhar province that left at least 24 dead and 68 injured, according to the provincial media office.
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