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Last Post 01/27/2018 3:55 PM by  nikos
Flashpoints-Current Items for Urgent Prayers: Kabul attack: Taliban kill 95 with ambulance bomb in Afghan capital
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01/27/2018 3:55 PM
    A suicide bombing has killed at least 95 people and injured 158 others in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, officials say.

    Attackers drove an ambulance laden with explosives past a police checkpoint in a secure zone, home to government offices and foreign embassies.

    The target is believed to have been an interior ministry building, but many people were hit while walking by.

    The Taliban have said they carried out the attack, the deadliest for months.

    A week ago, Taliban militants killed 22 people in a luxury Kabul hotel.

    Witnesses say the area - also home to offices of the European Union, a hospital and a shopping zone known as Chicken Street - was crowded with people when the bomb exploded on Saturday at about 12:15 local time (08:45 GMT).

    Plumes of smoke were seen from around the city.

    read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42843897
    Tags: Afghanistan, suicide bomber, Kabul, Kabul attack, Chicken Street
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