Funeral prayer for Kabul blast victim, relatives visit hospital to check on loved ones

Record ID: 1634010

  • Title: Funeral prayer for Kabul blast victim, relatives visit hospital to check on loved ones
  • Date: 27th August 2021
  • Summary: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AUGUST 27, 2021) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FUNERAL FOR AIRPORT ATTACK CASUALTY IN PROGRESS MOURNERS AT FUNERAL (SOUNDBITE) (Dari) UNIDENTIFIED RELATIVE OF CASUALTY, SAYING: "Our hearts are on fire, how long should we lose our lives and be humiliated? This is really a big loss for all of us." MOURNERS AT FUNERAL VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ARRIVING AT THE HOSPITAL (SOUNDBITE) (Pashto) UNIDENTIFIED RELATIVE OF CASUALTY, SAYING: "The situation was very bad. There was no one to retrieve the wounded and dead bodies out of the water and most of the people were killed because the foreigners had blocked the road for an hour. Some of the wounded people died because the roads were blocked." SIGN READING (Dari): "EMERGENCY SURGICAL CENTRE FOR WAR VICTIMS" EXTERIOR OF EMERGENCY SURGICAL CENTRE (SOUNDBITE) (Dari) UNIDENTIFIED RELATIVE OF CASUALTY, SAYING: "Our family has six members, and I have two younger brothers, and I am the eldest child in the family. My uncles are in the provinces, and only one of my aunts got herself here, and we have no one else. Besides my mother, my father was our guardian, and now he is in such a situation." VARIOUS OF AIRPORT ATTACK CASUALTIES ON HOSPITAL BEDS
  • Embargoed: 10th September 2021 12:50
  • Keywords: Afghanistan Kabul blast bombing conflict funeral hospital patients relatives
  • Location: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
  • City: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001ES204EF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Kabul residents on Friday (August 27) started to hold funerals for those who were killed in a deadly attack outside the airport on the previous day.
    At the hospital, the injured were being treated and anxious family members were seen checking on their loved ones.
    At least one Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bomber was responsible for the attack on Thursday (August 26) evening outside the gates of Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 85 people including 13 U.S. soldiers, witnesses said.
    "Our hearts are on fire, how long should we lose our lives and be humiliated? This is really a big loss for all of us," said an unidentified relative of someone who was killed.
    U.S. forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule were on alert for more attacks on Friday, according to General Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command. The pace of evacuation flights had also accelerated, according to a Western security official stationed inside the airport.
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