Two back to back explosions rocked capital Kabul late on the same day which left at least 27 police recruits dead along with a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation service member and 8 contracted civilians of the Resolute Support mission.
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The attack came late in the afternoon when convoys often go through downtown Kabul taking foreign and Afghan workers, as well as global military personnel, to their homes or barracks.
According to reports, the suicide attack was carried out to target a convoy of foreign security contractors.
This has been a longstanding issue between the two neighbors but a recent uptick in stridency is striking – and risky at a time when the Taliban seem to grow more militant and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has pulled its combat troops from Afghanistan. He did not disclose their nationalities or jobs. Five women and six children were wounded, said Wahidullah Mayar, a spokesman for the Afghan Health Ministry.
Afghan civilians have also suffered heavily in attacks around the country.
At least one armored vehicle in the convoy was destroyed by the blast.
Around the blast site bystanders expressed anger at the Afghan government and its global coalition partners, including the United States. Three of the dead were foreigners.
The Taliban shortly denied it was behind within the assault in Kabul’s Macrorayan neighbourhood, although the militants more and more have been concentrating on Kabul in current weeks and sometimes do not declare assaults that maim giant numbers of civilians.
The insurgents are known to distance themselves from attacks that result in a large number of civilian casualties.
His absence has plunged the insurgency into a power struggle.
The Taliban’s announcement that Mullah Omar had died led to a tentative peace process being suspended last week.
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A deadly blast in Afghanistan’s capital comes close to the U.S. Embassy. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the January 29, 2015, attack at Kabul global Airport that took the lives of three Praetorian contractors, Matt Fineran, Walter D. Fisher and Jason D. Landphair.
