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| Heavy Explosion Rocks Kabul: 4 Civilians Killed, 4 American Troops Wounded | |
| 2019-06-01 | |
| [ToloNews] A heavy kaboom rocked Kabul city on Friday morning hours after an kaboom near the military academy in the west of Kabul left six people dead. Nasrat Rahimi, a front man for Ministry of Interior Affairs, told TOLOnews that the kaboom happened in Qala-e-Wazir area in Kabul’s PD9 and that it was a boom-mobile blast. He said the kaboom happened at around 8:30am. Eyewitnesses and police sources said the kaboom targeted a foreign forces convoy. According to sources, five people were maimed in the kaboom. 9:40AM At least four non-combatants were killed and three others maimed in a boom-mobile blast in Kabul which happened at around 8:30am this morning, the Interior Ministry's front man Nasrat Rahimi confirmed. US-Forces Afghanistan confirmed that at least four US service members were maimed in the kaboom in Kabul's Qala-e-Wazir area on Friday morning.
A spokesman for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan confirmed that a car bomb hit a U.S. convoy and four service members had suffered minor injuries in the explosion but gave no other details. The blast sent a plume of white smoke into the air and spread debris across the busy Jalalabad road in the city’s east, an area with several large security compounds which has seen repeated attacks over the years. Witnesses said at least three armored Land Cruiser vehicles were in the convoy, one of which was heavily damaged in the explosion and removed from the scene by crane as Afghan and U.S. troops guarded the scene while firefighters cleaned up. Kabul has been on high alert in recent days, with security checkpoints reinforced, despite increased diplomatic efforts to open a peace process to end 18 years of war in Afghanistan. Friday’s attack, shortly before next week’s Eid al-Fitr holiday, came as a delegation of Taliban officials met senior Afghan politicians in Moscow this week for discussions which the main Taliban spokesman said had made good progress. The Taliban have been talking with U.S. diplomats for several months to agree a withdrawal of more than 20,000 U.S. and NATO coalition troops in exchange for guarantees that Afghanistan would not be used as a base for militant attacks. | |
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