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Aug 7, 2019
World News: Taliban claim bomb attack on police in Afghanistan; nearly 100 wounded
Reuters Editorial
3-4 minutes -
KABUL
(Reuters) - A suicide attacker detonated a car-bomb outside a police
station in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday wounding at least 95
people, government officials said, and the Taliban claimed
responsibility.
People
walk in front of a building with broken windows at the site of a car
bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
There
has been no let-up in violence in Afghanistan even though the Taliban
and the United States appear close to a historic pact for U.S. troops to
withdraw in exchange for a Taliban promise the country would not be
used as a base from which to plot attacks by extremists.
The blast, in the west of the city during the morning rush hour, sent a huge cloud of gray smoke billowing into the sky.
The Taliban said a “recruitment center” had been attacked by one of their suicide bombers.
“A large number of soldiers and police were killed or wounded,” the Taliban said in a statement.
Government security officials said they were searching the scene and expected to update casualty details later.
The
bomb went off when a vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint outside the
police station, said interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi.
A
health ministry spokesman said 95 wounded people had been taken to
hospitals. Most of them were civilians, including women and children, he
said.
“Again a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul targets a
civilian area that resulted in harming of so many innocents,” Sediq
Sediqqi, a spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, said on Twitter.
The
blast came a day after the Taliban called for a boycott of a Sept. 28
presidential election and threatened to attack election rallies.
Separately,
security forces conducted raids on two Islamic State militant hideouts
in Kabul overnight and killed two militants and seized a large quantity
of explosives and bomb-making equipment, the National Directorate of
Security (NDS) said.
Three members of the security forces were also killed, an agency spokesman said.
Both
the U.S. peace envoy leading talks with the Taliban, and the Taliban
reported significant progress this week in their talks in Qatar aimed at
ending America’s longest war.
The militants control more
territory than at any point since the United States bombed them out of
power in 2001 and many government officials fear their war with the
Taliban will not end if U.S. troops leave.
About 20,000 foreign
troops, most of them American, are in Afghanistan as part of a U.S.-led
NATO mission to train, assist and advise Afghan forces. Some U.S. forces
carry out counter-terrorism operations.
President Donald Trump has announced his aim to end the war.
Reporting by Orooj Hakimi, Abdul Qadir Sediqi; Writing by Robert Birsel; Editing by Paul Tait and Michael Perry
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