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| Car bomb hits NATO convoy in Kabul; 6 dead |
| 2013-05-16 |
| A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people in the explosion and wounding more than 30, police and hospital officials said. A Muslim militant group, Hizb-e-Islami, claimed responsibility for the early morning attack. The powerful explosion rattled buildings on the other side of Kabul and sent a pillar of white smoke into the sky in the city's east. NATO spokesman Lt. j.g. Quenton Roehricht said the international alliance can "confirm an explosion occurred on a coalition convoy in Kabul this morning," but provided no further details. Kabul provincial police spokesman Hashmad Stanakzi said the suicide bomber attacked the convoy with a car packed with explosives. "The explosion was very big. It set the nearby buildings on fire," Stanakzi said. He said there were people killed and several were wounded but he could not immediately give exact numbers. "The casualty numbers are high and mostly civilian." Kabul Deputy Police Chief Daud Amin said it was difficult to immediately estimate the number of dead because the blast had shredded many of the victims. "We saw two dead bodies of children on the ground," Amin said. "But the rest of the bodies were scattered in pieces around." Two Kabul hospitals reported that at least six dead and 37 wounded were brought in from the scene, city hospitals chief Kabir Amiri said, adding that the toll could increase as more hospitals report in. The bodies were too badly charred to immediately identify, he added. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Up to 15 now. |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-05-16 11:56 |
| #2 Likely that the Iranians, pissed that the US green-lighted the Israeli strike that took out their missiles for Hezbollah and killed some Revolutionary Guards, signaled back through their Hekmatyar subsidiary. The media so far has been too brain dead to mention the Iran paymaster role for Hizb-al-Islam, but the Iranians figure US intelligence won't be unaware. At some point, even the journalists should catch on. |
| Posted by: Odysseus 2013-05-16 07:40 |
| #1 I am sure this merely an accident as the religion of peace adherents would not kill muslim children. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2013-05-16 03:18 |