Afghan
medical staff treat a wounded man after a car bomb exploded near the
old Interior Ministry building, at Jamhuriat Hospital in Kabul (Picture:
Getty)
It has been reported that at least 40 people are dead and 140
injured after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside an ambulance in
Kabul.
According to Metro UK, the bomber used the emergency vehicle to get
through a security checkpoint by telling police he was taking a patient
to a nearby hospital.
At least 140 people were injured in the blast (Picture: Getty)
Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, said
the attacker detonated his explosives at a second check point.
While Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed
responsibility for the attack, which sent thick, dark smoke into the sky
from the site of the explosion near the government’s former Interior
Ministry building.
The Afghan Public Health Ministry confirmed the fatalities
following the blast in an area of the capital near foreign embassies and
government buildings.
‘It is a massacre,’ said Dejan Panic, coordinator in
Afghanistan for the Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a nearby
trauma hospital. In a message on Twitter, the group said more than 50
wounded had been brought in to that hospital alone.
People help carry an injured man to the hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul (Picture: AP)
Buildings hundreds of metres (yards) away were shaken by the force
of the explosion, which left torn bodies strewn on the street nearby
amid rubble and debris.
People helped walking-wounded away as ambulances with sirens
wailing inched their way through the traffic-clogged streets of the city
centre.
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