Twin Taliban suicide blasts in Kabul kill 24, wound 91


Kabul, Sep 5 (AFP): At least 24 people were killed and 91 wounded today in a Taliban double suicide bombing in central Kabul during late afternoon rush hour, the latest assault on the Afghan capital.

The carnage near the defence ministry came as the Taliban ramp up their nationwide summer offensive against the US-backed government.

The two bombers on foot blew themselves up in rapid succession, in an assault apparently aimed at inflicting mass casualties as government employees left the ministry after work.

"The first explosion occurred on a bridge near the defence ministry. When soldiers, policemen and civilians rushed to the scene, there was the second explosion," defence ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish told AFP.

Health ministry spokesman Waheed Majroh said the attack left 24 people dead and 91 others wounded, some of them seriously.

"The casualties could rise still further," Majroh said.

The Italian-run Emergency Hospital in Kabul tweeted that it had so far received 21 injured people, four of whom died on arrival.

President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the attack and offered condolences to the families of the victims.

"The enemies of Afghanistan have lost their ability to fight the Security and Defense Forces of the country," Ghani said in a statement.

"That is why they are attacking highways, cities, mosques, schools and common people."

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter that the defence ministry was the object of the first attack, while police were targeted in the second.

The attack took place more than a week after 16 people were killed when militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, in a nearly 10-hour raid that prompted anguished pleas for help from trapped students.

Explosions and gunfire rocked the campus in that attack, which came just weeks after two university professors -- an American and an Australian -- were kidnapped at gunpoint near the school.

Their whereabouts are still unknown and no group so far has publicly claimed responsibility for the abductions, the latest in a series of kidnappings in the conflict-torn country.

The uptick in violence in the capital comes as the Taliban escalate nationwide attacks, underscoring the worsening security situation since NATO forces ended their combat mission at the end of 2014.

Afghan forces backed by US troops are seeking to head off a potential Taliban takeover of Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern opium-rich province of Helmand.

The Taliban have also closed in on Kunduz -- the northern city they briefly seized last year in their biggest military victory since the 2001 US invasion -- leaving Afghan forces stretched on multiple fronts.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues., Frazer Town,Bangalore

    Tue, Sep 06 2016

    No body can predict what worst is expected from Taliban who are really curse to the mankind

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  • Sachidanand Shetty, Dubai/Mundkur

    Tue, Sep 06 2016

    I hope that now Ramya would say Taliban people are very good and well cultured citizens of “Afgha-Pak”

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  • Sanath, Karkala

    Tue, Sep 06 2016

    She may just say. But she wont go and eat Biryani with their leaders like feku.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Jersey City

    Tue, Sep 06 2016

    as long as our Indian Solders do not get killed ...

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  • Alwyn, Canadian

    Tue, Sep 06 2016

    Can't believe how much blood shed just because of this hate ideology planted peoples minds. Killing is a norm for this people. Everywhere you go same s#it

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  • Don, Mangalore

    Tue, Sep 06 2016

    The problem the whole world is facing is an ideology that is based on hate. Whether it is Pakistan or for that matter any other "Stan - (Country)" wherever there is that someone who subscribes to this ideology of hate you will see bloodshed.

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  • Charan, Mangaluru

    Tue, Sep 06 2016

    But there are still some fanatics believe that Israel is behind the attack
    Good going by peace lovers....

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  • Langoolacharya, Belman/Wash DC

    Mon, Sep 05 2016

    People,

    Taliban HQ is in Pakistan...terrorism will not stop unless Pakistan is bombed and destroyed by NATO forces...no use in hitting Snakes tail...Snakes head need to be chopped off...for the show to end once and for all...

    ...JH...

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