Heavy casualties in car bomb at checkpoint near embassies in Afghan capital
A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed and wounded scores of people at a police checkpoint in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, in an area near foreign embassies and government buildings, officials said, Reuters reports.
A spokesman from the public health ministry said several people had been killed and at least 80 wounded in the blast, which came a week after a deadly attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in the city.
“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.
Mirwais Yasini, a member of parliament who was nearby when the explosion occurred, said the ambulance approached the checkpoint, close to an office of the High Peace Council and several foreign embassies, and blew up.
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