"Daesh came and started firing, we were stuck. "There was a blast at the door," Rowana Dawari, a poet and lecturer, told AFP. One woman who had been trapped in the hospital when the attack began told AFP how she and her friend "felt we were going to die, that our lives were ending". Mujahid played down the death toll, but confirmed that two Taliban fighters, two women and a child had been killed outside the hospital. "Nineteen dead bodies and about 50 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in Kabul," a health ministry official who asked not to be named told AFP. Gunmen then broke into the hospital grounds, firing their weapons. The attack got under way when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the facility's entrance.
"The IS insurgents wanted to target civilians, doctors and patients in the hospital," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said, claiming that Taliban forces had repulsed the attack within 15 minutes.Īs part of the response, he said, Taliban "special forces" were dropped onto the roof of the hospital from one of the helicopters that the group seized from Afghanistan's former US-backed government. Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) said in a statement on its Telegram channels that "five Islamic State group fighters carried out simultaneous coordinated attacks" on the sprawling site. The Taliban's rivals, the Islamic State group, claimed responsibility for the gun and bomb assault in the centre of the capital. KABUL, Afghanistan - At least 19 people were killed and 50 more wounded in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest atrocity to rock Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power.
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