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A car bomb that exploded outside a private hospital in
Kabul has killed 12 people and wounded 105, according to the
Afghan Ministry of Public Health. Three victims were
civilian NATO contractors and the other nine were Afghan
soldiers.
“The target seemed to be a vehicle carrying foreign
contractors,” Al Jazeera’s Jeniffer Glasse, reporting form
Kabul, said. Afghan users on Twitter said alarms could be
heard ringing in the area following the explosion.
Paramedics carried the wounded away on stretchers in a
street littered with broken glass and mangled cars, a witness
interviewed by the Reuters news agency said.
The bomb was placed in a Toyota sedan, a security official
at the scene said.
Parts of the car ripped apart by the force of the blast were
scattered along the street. Glass was blown out of the
windows of the Shinozada hospital and a six-storey building
opposite. On its website, the Shinozada is described as
Afghanistan’s first private hospital.
There have been a number of attacks in the city within the
past month. At least four people were killed at Kabul
airport on August 10 and dozens of civilians were killed in
multiple suicide attacks a week earlier.
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