Afghanistan

Numerous victims in suicide attacks in Kabul

Once again, suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Afghan capital, Kabul, IS in the air. In two places many people be torn to death. Many more victims are severely injured.

As a spokesman for the Afghan health Ministry announced that have killed at least 80 people and more than 230 injured. The head of the Isteqlal hospital, Mohammad Sabir Nasib, said: “Many of the injured who were brought to the hospital are in bad shape.”

Explosion during a Demonstration

The detonations occurred during a peaceful Demonstration at a Central square. There are many people in the ethnic group of the Hasara, a Persian had gathered-Shiite minority in Sunni Afghanistan, protests against a power line. “At first we thought it was a mine Explosion, but when I reached the Area, it became clear to me that it was a suicide attack with a car,” said a protester, who had resided in the vicinity.

In a Demonstration of the population of the Hasara it came to the detonations

The identity of the victims, the Ministry spokesman was still no precise information. The Afghan presidential Palace said that among the dead were also security forces which had guarded the Demonstration.

IS committed

Soldiers secure the crime scene after the attacks

Sick, had car trouble, to go to the site of Explosion, because the authorities had blocked a number of street intersections, to prevent the demonstrators to the presidential Palace March. To known the attack of the so-called “Islamic state,” the terrorist organization affiliated Agency Amaq. The Taliban, who had committed to a short cease-fire during the fasting month of Ramadan already, a number of attacks in Afghanistan, denied involvement.

cgn/yy (afp, dpa, rtr)