{"id":686696,"date":"2021-08-26T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=686696"},"modified":"2021-08-26T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:51:12","slug":"report-at-least-40-dead-120-wounded-transferred-to-kabul-hospitals-60-critical-taliban-not-allowing-release-of-casualty-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-at-least-40-dead-120-wounded-transferred-to-kabul-hospitals-60-critical-taliban-not-allowing-release-of-casualty-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: \u2018At Least 40 Dead,\u2019 120 Wounded Transferred To Kabul Hospitals, \u201860%\u2019 Critical, Taliban Not Allowing Release Of Casualty Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-at-least-40-dead-120-wounded-transferred-to-kabul-hospitals-60-critical-taliban-not-allowing-release-of-casualty-counts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=686696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234434109.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New York Times reporter, Fahim Abed, who is based in Kabul, Afghanistan, is now reporting that there have been at least \u201c40 dead bodies\u201d and \u201c120 wounded\u201d transferred to Kabul area hospitals, and 60% of those incoming are in critical condition. Abed also warned that the world may not get an accurate count of casualties because the Taliban is asking health care workers on the ground not to report casualty numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 40 dead bodies and 120 wounded transferred to Kabul hospitals, with 60% of wounded in the critical condition,\u201d Abed said Thursday shortly after news broke of a suicide bombing near Hamid Karzai International Airport and, later, a second explosion outside the Baron Hotel, where many evacuees from Kabul had been waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Abed also reported, shortly after, that the Taliban was instructing health care workers not to report a casualty count and pleaded with Taliban officials to provide transparency on the extent of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwin blast close to the Kabul airport, but none of the health officials provides details and figures, they were asked by the Taliban not to,\u201d Abed said on Twitter. \u201c<span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zabehulah_M33\">@Zabehulah_M33<\/a> <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IeaOffice\">@IeaOffice<\/a> <\/span>as a group in control of Kabul, you should provide information, it is not working this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least 3 Americans Marines and dozens of Afghan nationals were wounded in the attack according to sources on the ground, as The Daily Wire noted earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least three U.S. Marines have been injured in a suicide attack outside the Kabul airport, multiple reports confirm,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/at-least-3-u-s-troops-injured-in-kabul-airport-blast-casualties-confirmed-reports-say\">the Daily Wire said<\/a>. \u201cFox News reported that U.S. officials confirmed the troop injuries, though it is currently unclear how many injuries or casualties have occurred as a result of the explosion. A witness to the attack told Fox News that an infant was killed in the explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casualties \u2014 including American casualties \u2014 are expected to rise precipitously.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-explosion-near-kabul-airport-in-final-days-of-evacuation-pentagon-confirms\">reported<\/a>, the Pentagon confirmed that an explosion rocked Kabul\u2019s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday, just days ahead of the Biden administration\u2019s deadline to evacuate Americans and Afghan visa holders from the country, which has fallen to Taliban rule in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><em>\u201cWe can confirm an explosion outside Kabul airport. Casualties are unclear at this time. We will provide additional details when we can,\u201d Pentagon press secretary John Kirby wrote on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Following this confirmation, a second explosion occurred near a hotel that has been used as a gathering point for Americans waiting to be evacuated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The attacks near the Kabul airport come just hours after the State Department warned of potential terrorist attacks, telling Americans outside the gates of the airport to \u201cleave immediately,\u201d Fox reported. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also warned on Wednesday of a \u201cvery real possibility\u201d of an attack.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So far, the United States is saying that it will continue its on-the-ground operations, but Americans are being told to leave the airport immediately. Canadian forces are withdrawing their presence from Kabul, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story, please stay with the Daily Wire for updates.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times reporter, Fahim Abed, who is based in Kabul, Afghanistan, is now reporting that there have been at least \u201c40 dead bodies\u201d and \u201c120 wounded\u201d transferred to Kabul &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}