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| Afghanistan |
| Attack On Afghan Ministry Leaves Seven Dead |
| 2019-04-21 |
| [ToloNews] The center of Kabul city witnessed a complex attack by at least four button men on Saturday after months of relative calm in the Afghan capital amid accelerating efforts for the grinding of the peace processor. The attack started with a suicide kaboom outside the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology in Kabul’s PD2 ‐ which is located in the once-famous 18-story building built during the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. The attackers breached the heavily-fortified compound an hour after the first kaboom and fought for five hours near and inside the first floor of the building. The ministry is surrounded by other key government compounds ‐ including the Ministry of Information and Culture and the Central Postal Service Organization. Employees of all the surrounding government organizations were evacuated sharply after the attack started at around 11:40 Kabul time. At least 2,000 employees of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology were either evacuated or were taken to the "safe rooms" as officials described it after the attack. The center of the city, which connects main markets to other parts of Kabul, was paralyzed for the rest of the day after the attack happened. Ministry of Interior in a statement later in the day said that at least seven people, including three security force members, were killed and six others were maimed in the attack. The button men had police and military uniforms, said Sayed Mohammad Roshandil, Kabul’s Police Chief. The incident left the employees of the Ministry of Communication in shock as some of them were "not able" to talk to TOLOnews after they were evacuated from the building, the TOLOnews news hound Tamim Hamid described. According to the Ministry of Interior, The attack ended at around 5pm Kabul time. Taliban rejects involvement in today’s attack on telecommunications ministry in Kabul [KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has rejected the involvement of the group in today’s coordinated attack on the ministry of telecommunications and information technology in Kabul. Taliban group front man Zabiullah Mujahid has said in a statement that today’s attack in Kabul has nothing to do with the fighters of the group. No individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the attack. The Ministry of Interior has confirmed that the attack on the ministry of telecommunications and information technology ended later today after all four assailants were rubbed out by security forces. The Ministry of Interior in a separate statement said four civilians and three security personnel have bit the dust in the attack and eight others have sustained injuries. |
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