In Afghanistan’s Kabul, 240 Injured, 15 people killed in truck bombing attack
On Friday, August 07, 2015, Kabul city faced an incident in which truck bomb exploded near an army compound, and at least 15 people are killed and there was 240 people are injured. At that time the bomb went off at round 1 a.m. local time and targeted an Afghan army compound and that is close to residential houses and a market area in the neighborhood of Shah Shaheed.
Police and government officials said, at that moment of a major attack in the Afghan capital since the Taliban announced a new leader. They said, there was no immediate claim of responsibility for truck bomb explosion and that time wounded people sleep and damaged homes and shops. A spokesman of the Taliban said the group who was looking into the incident and government announced for high investigation should have to be started.
Due to bomb attack, the destruction it caused was very serious, even by Kabul’s grim standards. There was Mutistoried building collapsed, storefronts ripped up and charred cars were scattered everywhere. The explosion left a crater several meters deep and as wide as the street, and it shattered the windows of houses far away.
Still, there are many medical workers assessing the human toll of the attack. And the majority of the wounded suffered from minor injuries and many of them caused because of broken glass. Ashraf Ghani, who is the president of the Afghan, updates the casualty figures on Friday after and he said that 30 children are still among the wounded. And the ministry of health earlier said that many of them 400 people had been injured.
After the some hours of blasting, Ahmad Khan was surveying what was left of his ship which shop was located at few meters from the blast site. And he said, ” that my shop is completely destroyed. I put my lifetime savings into it,” said Mr. Khan, who used to sell spare parts for cars.
Now Attention is focused on the internal tension in the Taliban over the question of succession, as Mansour’s swift appointment of a small council of leaders in the Pakistani city of Quetta has angered others in the group.