Twin Kabul Suicide Blasts Kill and Wound Scores, Including Journalists

  • 4/30/2018
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A coordinated double suicide bombing hit central Kabul on Monday morning, killing 25 people, including an Agence France Presse photographer and three other journalists, in an attack claimed by ISIS. Also, at least 45 people were wounded, according to Wahid Majroh, the public health ministrys spokesman who gave the latest casualty tolls. AFP reported that the news agencys chief photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai, was among those killed. The news agency said Marai died in a blast that was targeting a group of journalists who had rushed to the scene of the earlier suicide attack in Kabul. A cameraman from the local TOLO TV and two journalists from 1TV, along with four policemen, were also among those killed. The suicide attacks took place in the central Shash Darak area, which is home to the NATO headquarters and a number of embassies in Afghanistan. The second was meant to hit those rushing to the scene of the attack to help the victims of the first blast. The local ISIS affiliate and the more firmly established Taliban carry out regular attacks around the country. But in a statement issued via its propaganda agency Amaq on Monday, ISIS said two suicide bombers had targeted the Kabul headquarters of Afghanistans intelligence services.

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