Scores Feared Wounded as Explosion Rocks Hospital in Kabul

• Blasts were heard near a hospital in Kabul, casualties reported
• At least 16 wounded in Kabul hospital blasts

Ekohotblog reports that on Tuesday, two explosions at a military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, injured at least 16 people.

It was unclear whether anyone was killed in the explosions at the Daoud Khan Military Hospital, a teaching institution near Kabul’s diplomatic area.

According to Taliban authorities, special soldiers have arrived on the site.

A doctor at the adjacent Wazir Akbar Khan civil hospital who was receiving arriving patients reported seven individuals had been hurt so far.

All of them were men, he claimed, and two of them were in critical condition. He stated he didn’t know if the patients from the neighboring military hospital were guests, medical professionals, or patients when they were injured by the explosives.

In addition, the humanitarian NGO “Emergency” tweeted that nine injured were brought to its hospital in Kabul.

The Daoud Khan Military Hospital has previously been attacked. Suicide bombers with Taliban ties blew themselves up inside the facility in 2011, killing six people and wounding 26 more.

In 2017, gunmen dressed as medical staff assaulted the hospital, murdering at least 30 people after a six-hour siege that ended with the assailants being slain by Afghan security forces. ISIS took credit for the bombing.

Since the extreme Islamist Taliban organization ousted the Western-backed government in August, Afghanistan has been in crisis. Billions of dollars in assistance were halted and the international community has warned that the country would soon collapse into chaos.

Last Friday, three guests were shot dead at a wedding reception in eastern Afghanistan, apparently because music was being played.