WASHINGTON (Web Desk/Web Desk) – The U.S. At least 60 people including 12 US Marines were killed in a ISIS bomb attack at the Kabul airport, that targeted US troops, foreigners and Afghans trying to leave the capital Kabul on Thursday.
At least 60 people were murdered, including 12 US Marines, in an ISIS bomb attack on the Kabul airport on Thursday, which targeted US personnel, foreigners, and Afghans attempting to flee the country.
According to media sources citing Afghan health officials, the number of people killed in the sequence of blasts was about 60, with more than 140 injured. The number of US troops killed, according to the US media, was about ten.
The number of US servicemen thought to have been killed in Thursday’s Kabul bombings has risen to 12, according to US officials using preliminary information that might change.
Earlier, a US official told Reuters that at least ten American military personnel were killed in blasts at a gate at Kabul airport, where the US is conducting a large evacuation, and at a nearby hotel.
An Afghan journalist’s video photos on the internet revealed a pile of bloodsoaked victims in a roadway surrounded by rubble. The man shooting it was in tears.
The explosion occurred in the midst of people gathered outside the airport in the expectation of leaving in an airlift that the US claims would cease by Tuesday, following the Taliban’s quick control of the nation.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, but US authorities placed the blame at the Islamic State’s Afghan offshoot, ISIS-Khorosan, which has emerged as both the West’s and the Taliban’s adversary.
According to Mohammad Tawfiq, a resident of the Yaka Toot neighbourhood close to the airport’s military portion, a canal near the airport was filled with the remains of the dead and wounded.
A witness identified as Jamshed stated that he went to the airport with the hopes of obtaining a visa to travel to the United States. “In the midst of the crowd, there was a really strong and forceful suicide assault. Many people were murdered, including Americans, and many others were injured “he said
“We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a sophisticated assault that resulted in a number of US and civilian casualties,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby stated on Twitter. We can also corroborate at least one more explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, which is located close Abbey Gate.”
“I confirm two explosions in the assemblage of civilians in the region supervised by US forces,” Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen stated. According to preliminary information, 13 people have been murdered and 52 have been injured.
“We strongly condemn this heinous crime and will go to whatever length to bring the perpetrators to justice.”
The Taliban did not name the assailants, but a spokesperson characterised them as “evil circles” that would be crushed once foreign forces left.
On Thursday, Washington and its allies urged civilians to avoid the airport, citing the possibility of an Islamic State suicide strike.
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