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2018-05-11 Afghanistan
Kabul Attacks Death Toll Rises To Seven
More on this report from yesterday.
[ToloNews] At least seven people were killed in coordinated attacks on police headquarters in Kabul City on Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Health said on Thursday.

Waheed Majroh, front man for the ministry, said 17 others were maimed in the attacks.

He said "the number of casualties may raise".

The first attack occurred at around 11:30am Kabul time in which two jacket wallahs stormed the PD13 Police Headquarters’ building in Dasht-e-Barchi area, in the west of Kabul, Interior Ministry front man Najib Danish.

He said one police officer and a police soldier were killed and two others maimed in the attack.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
Kabul Police Chief Daud Amin said on Thursday that "first a suicide bomber detonated his explosives close to the gate of PD13 and the second bomber entered inside the compound and he was killed by police after 20 minutes of festivities".

"The attackers had security forces uniform and were equipped with RPG, hand grenade and guns," he said.

The second kaboom occurred when a suicide bomber was recognized and stopped by police force members in Mahtab Qala area in Dasht-e-Barchi, he added.

Amin said five suicide bombers attacked PD10 Police Headquarters in Shar-e-Naw area in Kabul City.

The attack occurred at around 12:30pm when a suicide bomber blew up his explosives near the police headquarters and four others entered into building of a private travel agency in the area and started their attacks from the roof the building, the police chief said.

"The target was Shahir Travel Agency but police rescued all 300 employees of the agency," he said, adding that "the four other attackers were killed by police during the clearance operation".

According to Danish, the attack ended at around 6:30pm after all attackers were bumped off by government forces.

ISIS grabbed credit for the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
Taliban
...Arabic for students...
grabbed credit for the attack in Shahr-e-Naw.

However the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) said in a statement that Haqqani network had plotted Wednesday's suicide kabooms in Kabul with the help of Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...


Private Company Target Of Militant Attack In Kabul

[ToloNews] A day after coordinated bully boy attacks in Kabul, police said a travel agency in Shahr-e-Naw area in downtown Kabul was the target of suicide kaboomers.

"Their target was a company called Shahir which provides Indian visa services," Kabul Police Chief Mohammad Daud Amin told TOLOnews on Thursday.

The PD10 Police Chief Abdul Waheed Ahmadi said three coppers and a security guard from Etisalat Telecommunication Company were killed and 16 others sustained "minor injuries" in the attack.

He said five "suicide attackers" were involved in the attack at Shahr-e-Naw.

Eyewitnesses said the five suicide attackers had normal Afghan clothes and walked out of a car near the company and killed one soldier by shooting him and another blew up his explosives. The second suicide attack was carried out a minute later on the other side of the door.

The third suicide attack happened a little further from the place where the second kaboom happened.

Two other attackers entered a restaurant near the company through the door. The restaurant is now in ruins.

Police said the attackers had guns, hand grenades and boom jackets. They have left shell casings, dried fruit, hats and boom jackets inside the hotel.

The two suicide attackers went to the second floor of the restaurant and fought government forces from 12:00pm to 5:00pm Kabul time. Finally, one of them was killed by security forces in a bathroom in the restaurant while the second was killed while in a hall.

Amin said the attackers wanted to enter a high-rise building and hit their targets from there ‐ but were not successful.

"There were many national and international organizations around the building and if the attackers entered the building they would have threatened all the offices including the Asian (Development) Bank, Shahir Travel Agency and the PD10 police headquarters," Ahmadi told TOLOnews.

From information released by the Ministry of Interior, at least 350 people were inside Shahir Travel Agency when the attack happened. Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
dozens of others were inside nearby buildings including the Asian Development Bank branch, a department of the Attorney General’s Office, the PD10 Police Headquarters’ building, the Directorate of Hajj and Religious Affairs, shops and companies. All were rescued, the ministry said.

Residents of the area and eyewitnesses said the area has been under threat since a long time ago.

"They (militants) threatened to attack this area and now they have," said Samiullah, an eyewitness.

"The area has been under threat during the past two months," said Atiqullah, an eyewitness.
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