Journalist Bilal Sarwary, who fled Afghanistan earlier this week, reported that the airport explosion happened when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a crowd of refugees who had gathered in a sewage canal to have their travel documents vetted. “I won’t come back, I don’t wanna live here, this is not Afghanistan, it’s Boucheristan. “Every one should leave this country, this country is not for humans,” Khan added. The blood was everywhere and I walked amongst the dead bodies of children and young people.” “The smell of burning flesh was prominent in the air. I was unconscious for a few minutes, I spotted the only route for escape, through the blast point,” Khan told The Daily Beast. “I lost my senses for a few minutes and held onto a wall to keep myself awake. Rozi Khan, a 28-year-old Afghan trying to flee the country, recounted hearing a “huge bang” then seeing the bodies of children and adults at the scene of the first blast, which happened in a crowded sewage canal where Afghans have been waiting to access the airport. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones and teammates of all those killed and injured.” “We also know that a number of Afghans fell victim to this heinous attack,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said in a statement. troops were relying on Taliban guards to protect the outer perimeter of the airport. McKenzie said he had no information to suggest the Taliban, who assumed control of the country a week ago, were involved. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attacks. That explosion was followed by a second suicide bombing at or close to the nearby Baron Hotel. “Ultimately Americans have got to be in danger to do these searches,” he said. McKenzie said the first suicide bombing occurred at an “interface point” at the airport’s Abbey Gate where evacuees who have gone through initial screening by the Taliban are then hand-searched by U.S. is “prepared to take action against them.” McKenzie vowed to “go after” those responsible for the “cowardly attack,” saying the U.S. “We believe it is their desire to continue those attacks,” he said. McKenzie Jr., commander of United States Central Command, called the continued threat from ISIS “extremely real.” Bill Urban of the Defense Department’s Central Command said in a statement. casualty event in Afghanistan since 2011, when 30 troops were killed in a Taliban attack on a Chinook helicopter.Īnother 18 servicemembers were wounded, “all of whom are in the process of being aeromedically evacuated from Afghanistan on specially equipped C-17s with embarked surgical units,” Capt. troops at 13 and making it the worst U.S. The Pentagon announced late Thursday that another American service-member had succumbed to his injuries hours after the attack, putting the death toll of U.S. Another health official told The New York Times that at least 40 were dead and 120 wounded. military warned of an imminent terror threat, the twin suicide bombings killed at least 60 Afghans and injured many more, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing a senior Afghan health official. troops and dozens of Afghans who were desperately trying to escape an already chaotic situation in Afghanistan. Two explosions have ripped through the area surrounding the international airport in Kabul, killing at least 13 U.S.
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