Sep 6, 2016- An attack on the offices of an worldwide charity in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, has left at least one civilian dead, officials say.
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The shooting comes after at least 24 people were killed Monday in twin bombings near the Afghan Defense Ministry.
Earlier reports had suggested the militants had targeted a hotel housing mostly Indian nationals.
Deputy defense ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said the second bombing was caused by a suicide attacker who struck the area of the first blast after security forces had gathered there.
The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for that attack.
The violence highlighted the precarious security in the capital just a month before a conference in Brussels where global donors are expected to pledge continued financial support to Afghanistan. Two more of her sons had already been killed while serving their country.
This was followed by the three gunmen barricading themselves inside the office of Care International.
Traffic on Tuesday was still banned from that area as well as around Shahr-i-Naw, several miles away.
No one has claimed responsibility for that attack, which came days after two of the university’s professors, one American and one Australian, were kidnapped in front of the campus. According to the Defence Ministry, the security climate in the capital is worsening, on Monday were registered two terror attacks, in which died many senior security officials, too. Gunfire was heard in Kabul early Tuesday, with security forces searching for attackers hidden.
An hour before midnight on Monday, a suicide vehicle bomber targeted the Kabul residential neighborhood of Shar-e Now, .
The uptick in violence in the capital comes as the Taliban escalate nationwide attacks, underscoring the worsening security situation and the heavy price paid by civilians since North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces ended their combat mission at the end of 2014.
Smoke rises from a building during an attack on a charity at the Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on September 6, 2016.
President Ashraf Ghani condemned the incident and said Afghanistan’s enemies – an official terminology for Pakistan – have again showed that they were against Kabul’s development.
Sediq Sediqqi, the spokesman for the Ministry of Interior says the target of the attack was not immediately clear.
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