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2021-11-03 Afghanistan
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19 25 dead and dozens wounded in ISIS-K attack on Afghanistan's biggest military hospital: Militants 'go room-to-room' and clash with Taliban after setting off explosives as pictures show blood-spattered children's ward
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] At least 19 25 people have been killed with dozens more maimed after explosions and gunfire rocked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital in an apparent ISIS-K suicide kaboom.
Militants entered the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital where they went room to room opening fire and clashed with Taliban
 ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
security forces, witnesses said.
Photos from inside the hospital showed the blood-spattered floor of the children's ward after the attack which has left at least 50 people maimed.
A Taliban official said all assailants had now been killed.
They added: 'The attack was initiated by a jacket wallah on a cycle of violence who went kaboom! at the entrance of the hospital.'
The Taliban's rivals, the Islamic State group, claimed responsibility for the gun and bomb assault in the centre of the capital.
Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) said in a statement on its Telegram channels that 'five Islamic State group fighters carried out simultaneous coordinated attacks' on the sprawling site.
The previous death toll was set at nineteen, but the latest reports suggest at least 25 people have been killed.
'Nineteen dead bodies and about 50 maimed people have been taken to hospitals in Kabul,' a health ministry official who asked not to be named told AFP earlier today.
Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a trauma hospital said nine maimed had been brought in so far.
Photographs shared by residents showed a plume of smoke over the area of the blasts near the former diplomatic zone in the Wazir Akbar Khan area in central Kabul.
But the official Bakhtar news agency quoted witnesses saying a number of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighters entered the hospital.
'I am inside the hospital. I heard a big explosion coming from the first checkpoint. We were told to go to safe rooms. I also hear guns firing,' a doctor at the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital in Kabul told AFP.
'I can still hear gun firing inside the hospital building. I think the attackers are going from room to room... like the first time it was attacked,' the doctor added.
A Taliban media spokesman confirmed two explosions hit the hospital area on Tuesday.
'One explosion has happened at the gate of the military hospital and a second somewhere near the hospital, this is our initial information, we will provide more details later,' he told AFP.
Qari Saeed Khosty, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said Taliban special forces had rushed to the scene to secure the area after 'a bomb' exploded.
AFP journalists heard a second blast followed by gunfire.
ISIS have claimed four mass casualty attacks since the Taliban takeover on August 15, including suicide kabooms targeting Shiite Moslem mosques. It regards Shiite Moslems as heretics.
In the 2017 attack on the military hospital, holy warriors went room to room killing people, switching to knives when they ran out of ammunition.
That attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, and the Taliban denied responsibility.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
survivors told AFP that the attackers chanted 'Long live Taliban' in Pashto and attacked all but two wards on the hospital's first floor where Taliban patients were admitted.
The attack was carried out by three attackers on Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan hospital which is a military hospital and is run by the ministry of defense.
First, an explosion carried out by a suicide attacker happened at the gate of the hospital and then two gunmen entered the hospital.
A few minutes later, a second explosion was heard which was by another suicide bomber inside the hospital.
Eyewitnesses say that the gunman and the Taliban fighter were involved in gunfire inside the hospital took three hours.
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