KABUL, Nov 3 — At least 19 people were killed and 50 more wounded in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul yesterday, the latest atrocity to rock Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power. The Taliban’s rivals, the Islamic State group, claimed responsibility for the gun and bomb assault in...
KABUL, Nov 3 — At least 19 people were killed and 50 more wounded in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul yesterday, the latest atrocity to rock Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power.
“The IS insurgents wanted to target civilians, doctors and patients in the hospital,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said, claiming that Taliban forces had repulsed the attack within 15 minutes. “Nineteen dead bodies and about 50 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in Kabul,” a health ministry official who asked not to be named told AFP.
“The explosion happened and after a while people started screaming ‘Daesh is here’,” he told AFP. “We heard a lot of firing. Now they face the struggle of bringing stability to Afghanistan, which has been hit in recent weeks by a series of bloody assaults claimed by the Islamic State group’s local chapter.
“I can still hear gun firing inside the hospital building. I think the attackers are going from room to room... like the first time it was attacked,” the doctor added.The hospital, which treats wounded soldiers from both the Taliban and former Afghan security forces, was previously attacked in 2017, when gunmen disguised as medical personnel killed at least 30 people in an hours-long siege.
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