ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEADLY BLAST AT WEDDING IN AFGHANISTAN, KILLING 63 PEOPLE
Kabul (CNN)A suicide
bomb attack at a wedding in Kabul on Saturday killed 63 people and wounded 182,
an Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said. Among the victims were women and
children, spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said. About 20 people were taken to a Kabul
hospital run by the Italian NGO Emergency, the organization said.
"We were planning
to sleep when we heard the sound of a loud explosion," a witness who lives
near the venue and did not want to be identified told CNN. "When I came
outside, I saw smoke coming out of the hall. I saw dead bodies and wounded
people, who were being taken to hospitals by policemen and Kabul ambulances. We
are too in shock, too upset by the incident. "ISIS claimed responsibility
for the attack. It said a Pakistani fighter detonated an explosive vest amid a
large gathering of Shia Muslims, reported the SITE Intelligence Group, which
monitors terrorist group activities.
The terror group also
said a car bombing followed the initial attack, added SITE. The venue is in
western Kabul, an area home to many of Afghanistan's Shiite Hazara minority. It
is also near the Darul Aman palace, where President Ashraf Ghani is expected to
celebrate Afghan Independence Day on Monday. Earlier this month, 14 people were
killed and 145 injured in the same district when three suicide attackers
detonated an improvised explosive device at the gate of the police
headquarters.
The Taliban claimed
responsibility for the August 7 attack, even as the terror group negotiates a
peace plan with Washington. Correction: A previous version of this story
misstated the number of fatalities in the blast at a wedding ceremony in Kabul.
Source: CNN World – 18 August 2019
By: Ehsan Popalzai
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By: Ehsan Popalzai
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