{"id":953018,"date":"2021-11-02T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=953018"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:44:28","slug":"explosions-kill-15-at-kabul-military-hospital-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/explosions-kill-15-at-kabul-military-hospital-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions Kill 15 at Kabul Military Hospital, Official Says"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fexplosions-kill-15-at-kabul-military-hospital-official-says%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=953018&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\/11\/2021-11-02T120318Z_1_LYNXMPEHA10QU_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-BLAST-1_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">KABUL&nbsp;<\/span>(Reuters)\u2014At least 15 people were killed and 34 wounded when two<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;explosion<\/span>s followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan&#8217;s biggest<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;military&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">hospital&nbsp;<\/span>in<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Kabul<\/span>, a Taliban security official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;explosion<\/span>s took place at the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;hospital&nbsp;<\/span>in central<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Kabul&nbsp;<\/span>and security forces had been sent to the area, Interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosty said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no confirmation of casualty numbers but a Taliban security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there were at least 15 dead and 34 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a trauma<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;hospital&nbsp;<\/span>some 3 km from the site of the blast, said nine wounded had been brought in so far.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs shared by residents showed a plume of<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;smoke&nbsp;<\/span>over the area of the blasts<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;near&nbsp;<\/span>the former diplomatic zone in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of the city and witnesses said at least two helicopters were flying over the area.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the official Bakhtar news agency quoted witnesses saying a number of Islamic State fighters entered the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;hospital&nbsp;<\/span>and clashed with security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed their victory over the previous Western-backed government in August, undermining their claim to have restored security to Afghanistan<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;after&nbsp;<\/span>decades of war.<\/p>\n<p>A health worker at the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;hospital<\/span>, who managed to escape, said he heard a large<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;explosion&nbsp;<\/span>followed by a couple of minutes of gunfire. About ten minutes later, there was a second, larger<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;explosion<\/span>, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was unclear whether the blasts and the gunfire were inside the sprawling<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;hospital&nbsp;<\/span>complex.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic State, which has carried out a series of attacks on mosques and other targets since the Taliban&#8217;s seizure of<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Kabul&nbsp;<\/span>in August, mounted a complex attack on the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;hospital&nbsp;<\/span>in 2017, killing more than 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s attacks have caused mounting worries outside Afghanistan about the potential for the country to become a haven for militant groups as it was when an al Qaeda group attacked the United States in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The concern has been worsened by a spiraling economic crisis that has threatened millions with poverty as winter approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt withdrawal of international support following the Taliban victory has brought Afghanistan&#8217;s fragile economy to the brink of collapse just as a severe drought has threatened millions with hunger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KABUL\u00a0(Reuters)\u2014At least 15 people were killed and 34 wounded when two\u00a0explosions followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan&#8217;s biggest\u00a0military\u00a0hospital\u00a0in\u00a0Kabul, a Taliban security official said on Tuesday. 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