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Taliban Test! IS militants attack Afghan military hospital, 19 dead, half hundreds injured
At least 19 people were killedslotand more than 50 wounded in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest brutality to shake Afghanistan. Since the Taliban rose to power
The Islamic State (IS) antagonist of the Taliban Claims responsibility for gun attacks and bombs in the heart of the capital this time.
The Islamic State of Khorasan (IS-K) said in a statement published on the Telegram. "Five Islamic State fighters carried out coordinated attacks covering a wide area."
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said: "IS insurgents want to target civilians. Doctors and hospital patients,” he said, claiming that Taliban forces were able to repel the attackers in 15 minutes.
part of the countermeasures The spokesperson said: Taliban special forces drop from a helicopter. that the group seized from the former Afghan government that the US government give support down to the roof of the hospital
News reports stated that The attack began when a suicide bomber detonated an explosion near the entrance of the hospital. Then a group of gunmen stormed the hospital area and opened fire. "19 bodies were found dead and about 50 were taken to hospitals in Kabul," a health ministry official said.
Mujahid denied the death toll. It confirmed only two Taliban fighters, two women and a child, who died outside the hospital.
Taliban insurgents against US government Supported for more than 20 years before a successful foray into power in August. But now they are having trouble restoring stability to Afghanistan. which over the past few weeks It has been subjected to bloody attacks from local networks of Islamic State.
“Every attacker died. The attack started with a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonating itself at the entrance of a hospital,” said a Taliban official from the government's media team.
He previously said in a statement that two bombs targeting hospital areas had sounded, while city-based AFP reporters concurred. A second explosion was heard about 30 minutes after the first.
A doctor at Sardar Hospital Mohammad Daud Khan told AFP at the time of the attack: “I heard a thunderous explosion coming from the first checkpoint. We were told to go to different rooms. secure I heard the sound of gunfire."
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