Kabul hospital attack: At least 25 dead after blasts hit military hospital in Afghanistan

SMA NEWS – KABUL

At least 25 people have been killed and 34 wounded by twin explosions at Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, a Taliban security source told The National.

Interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosty said the blasts took place at the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital. The cause has not been confirmed, but witnesses said they saw several attackers entering the premises and heard gunfire after the blasts.

The hospital treats wounded soldiers from both the Taliban and former Afghan security forces.

Another Taliban official said the attack was carried out by six men, and that two of them were captured.

Photographs shared by residents showed a plume of smoke over the area of the blasts.

Roads close to the heavily fortified “Green Zone” where the buildings of several former Western embassies were located were closed off to traffic and Taliban guards scaled up searches.

Families of the victims gathered outside the War and Trauma Hospital near the explosion site as ambulances, army vehicles and people in cars dropped off the injured at the doors.