Blast near Afghanistan’s foreign ministry kills at least six - SUCH TV
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At least six people were killed and more than a dozen injured after a powerful blast ripped through a highly fortified area near the Afghan foreign ministry in downtown Kabul on Monday.
According to international media reports, the explosion occurred at around 1:00 p.m. local time (0830 GMT) in close proximity to the Afghan foreign ministry complex when a number of ministry employees were present in the area.
The Emergency NGO’s surgical center in Kabul in a Twitter post earlier said it received 12 people wounded in the blast while two other victims were declared dead on arrival.
It further added that one child was among those wounded in the high-intensity explosion near a prominent trade center in downtown Kabul.
In a statement later, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said the attacker was identified and targeted by the security forces near the checkpoint before reaching his target, putting the death toll at six.
The capital Kabul and other major Afghan cities have come under several attacks in recent months, most of them claimed by the Daesh terrorist group.
In January, an explosion killed at least five people and injured dozens outside the foreign ministry complex in Kabul as employees were coming out of the building at the end of the working day.
Monday's bombing comes after the Taliban government on Sunday dismissed claims by US officials about the presence of Daesh in Afghanistan.
“The statements of US officials about the number of IS [Daesh] militants in Afghanistan are not true. Daesh militants have already been reduced in ranks and suppressed,” Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman of the group, said.
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