Relatives claim bodies, wounded recover in Kabul hospital following airport attack
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1633985
Relatives claim bodies, wounded recover in Kabul hospital following airport attack
- Title: Relatives claim bodies, wounded recover in Kabul hospital following airport attack
- Date: 27th August 2021
- Summary: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AUGUST 27, 2021) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RELATIVES MOURNING NEXT TO THE BODY OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBER WHO WAS KILLED IN THE AIRPORT BOMBING A MAN TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF A DECEASED PERSON AS DEAD BODIES LIE IN BAGS ON THE FLOOR BODY BAGS LYING ON THE GROUND SHOES AND SOCKS ON THE GROUND VARIOUS OF BOMBING VICTIMS ON HOSPITAL BEDS (SOUNDBITE) (Dari) BOMBING VICTIM, NAZIR AHMAD, SAYING: "It was evening around 5:30 pm that the incident took place, as I had fallen in the stream, I thought only I had remained alive, and I saw all the other people were killed, there were over three hundred dead people in the stream." VARIOUS OF BOMBING VICTIMS ON HOSPITAL BEDS BODY BAG ON THE FLOOR MAN ON THE PHONE STOOD NEXT TO A BODY BAG ON THE FLOOR VARIOUS OF HANDS AND FEET OF PEOPLE KILLED IN THE BOMBING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GATHERED TOGETHER OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL PAPERS ON TOP OF A BODY BAG BODY BAGS ON THE GROUND PEOPLE SITTING ON A WALL IN FRONT OF A COFFIN PEOPLE SECURING A COFFIN ON TOP OF A VEHICLE
- Embargoed: 10th September 2021 11:01
- Keywords: Afghanistan Kabul airport attack blasts dead hospital wounded
- Location: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
- City: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
- Country: Afghanistan
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001ES209XJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Mourners gathered at Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan hospital on Friday (August 27) to claim bodies of relatives killed in the attack at Kabul airport on Thursday (August 26).
Numerous victims of the bombing were also seen recovering at the hospital, after two blasts and gunfire rocked the area outside the airport on Thursday evening, witnesses said.
At least one Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people in the attack, with 13 U.S. soldiers amongst the dead.
Islamic State (ISIS), an enemy of the Islamist Taliban as well as the West, said one of its suicide bombers targeted "translators and collaborators with the American army".
It was not clear if suicide bombers detonated both blasts or if one was a planted bomb. It was also not clear if ISIS gunmen were involved in the attack or if the firing that followed the blasts was Taliban guards firing into the air to control crowds. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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