* At least two explosions rocked the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital
* There was no initial claim of responsibility but ISIS fighters were seen in hospital
* ISIS has carried out a series of attacks against the Taliban since August
At least 19 people have been killed with dozens more wounded after explosions and gunfire rocked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital in an apparent ISIS suicide bomb attack.
Militants entered the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital where they went room to room opening fire and clashed with Taliban security forces, witnesses said.
Photos from inside the hospital showed the blood-spattered floor of the children's ward after the attack which has left at least 50 people wounded.
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More News On Today's ISIS Attack In Kabul
Dozens Killed in Attack on Military Hospital in Afghanistan’s Capital -- New York Times
Islamic State Attack on Kabul Military Hospital Kills at Least 23 -- WSJ
At least 20 killed in Kabul hospital blasts -- CNN
At least 25 killed in Afghanistan as blasts, gunfire hit Kabul hospital -- ABC News Australia
Senior Taliban commander, several civilians killed in Kabul hospital attack -- France 24
Two explosions killed 19 and wounded 35 in Kabul -- Khaama Press (Afghanistan)
Taliban blames ISIS-K for deadly attack on hospital in Afghanistan's capital -- CBS/AFP
It is a military hospital, so why is there a children's ward?
ReplyDeleteI hate to see the children's ward hit. Consider this. It might be Pashtun against Pashtun, but it still makes it genocidal. Whole families and clans can be wiped out and they keep track of such things where as a college educated snot would not.
Some of those people in ISIS are now people we trained. We abandoned them. Joe abandoned the most elite unit in Western Afghanistan and denied them air support. So what do you expect? Should they have joined ISIS?
Some say spiders hanging by a single strand is like having you ass hanging in mid air for you whole life. The people we left behind are like those spiders except the strand has been cut.