DEADLY BLASTS NEAR MILITARY HOSPITAL IN KABUL KILL 25 PEOPLE

Tue 02 November 2021:

Two blasts, followed by gunfire, attacked Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in the capital Kabul, killing at least 25 people and wounding 50 others.

According to witnesses and a government spokeswoman, gunfire were also heard near the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan military hospital in the Afghan capital.

Near least two bombings occurred at the entrance of the 400-bed hospital in Kabul’s 10th sector, according to Bilal Karimi, the Islamic Emirate’s deputy spokesman.

“Security forces are deployed to the area, there is no information about casualties,” he said on Twitter.

“The attack was initiated by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle who blew himself up at the entrance of the hospital,” said the official on condition on anonymity, adding the assailants had all been killed.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. According to witnesses, a group of fighters from an ISIL (ISIS) offshoot stormed the hospital and clashed with security forces, according to the official Bakhtar News Agency.

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