Kabul: Daesh claims the two attacks in Afghanistan
Kabul: Daesh claims the two attacks in Afghanistan Sky world news / Kabul: Daesh claims the two attacks which left dozens dead and sixty wounded Twelve American servicemen were killed and fifteen others wounded in the suicide bombings which hit the area around Kabul airport on Thursday, a senior US military official said, adding that the evacuations were continuing.
Tension has increased in Kabul. Two explosions occurred near Kabul airport, said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, who later confirmed the terrorist nature of the attacks, pointing to ISIS.
The terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the attack in the aftermath. Immediately afterwards, a new explosion sounded before 10 p.m. “We can confirm that the explosion at Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that left a number of American and civilian casualties.
We can also confirm that at least one other explosion took place at or near the Hotel Baron, a short distance away, "the US official tweeted in the afternoon. At the same time, the Taliban, who recently seized power in Kabul, “condemned” the attacks, which took place in an area under American “responsibility”.
Several reports have been drawn up by various national and international authorities. Twelve US servicemen were killed and fifteen others wounded in the bombing near Kabul airport, the Pentagon said. The Wall Street Journal reports on four Marines who died in the bombing, according to an official source from the US Embassy in Kabul.
There would be a total of 13 to 20 dead and 52 injured, for his part said a spokesman for the Taliban.
Some 60 people were injured, meanwhile announced on Twitter the hospital of the Italian NGO Emergency in Kabul, which received some of the victims.
The two explosions near the airport were suicide bombings, again according to the Pentagon.
"Two jihadists considered to be ISIS blew themselves up at Abbey Gate, followed by armed ISIS jihadists who fired at civilians and soldiers," said General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the central command.
American in charge of Afghanistan. Several Western countries on Thursday called on their nationals to move away from Kabul airport as quickly as possible because of "terrorist" threats, while the thousands of Afghans who are still massing there to flee their country have not much time in front of them to be evacuated.
Those "currently at the Abbey, East and North entrances should leave immediately," the US State Department said, citing "security threats." During the G7 videoconference summit on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden had already mentioned a "serious and growing risk of attack" from the jihadist group Islamic State (E at the airport. Under the name ISKP (Islamic State Khorasan Province), ISIS has claimed responsibility for some of the bloodiest attacks in Afghanistan in recent years, killing hundreds.
Australian diplomacy had spoken of a "very high threat of terrorist attack." And London called on its nationals near the airport to leave it "to a safe place" while awaiting "further instructions", or for those who can leave Afghanistan by other means, to do so " at once ".
No details on the nature of the threat were made in these speeches. The British Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, had nevertheless spoken of a "very serious" and imminent.
