KABUL, Afghanistan — An explosion went off Tuesday on the entrance of a army hospital in Kabul, killing three individuals and wounding at the least 16, well being officers stated.
The blast went off on the entrance to the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan army hospital, the spokesman of the Taliban-run Inside Ministry, Saeed Khosty, wrote in a tweet. He added that particular forces had been on the scene.
Metropolis residents had reported two explosions within the space, of the hospital in Kabul’s tenth district, together with the sound of gunfire.
Later Tuesday, Sayed Abdullah Ahmadi, the director of the close by Wazir Akbar Khan hospital, stated his facility had obtained three our bodies and 7 individuals who had been injured within the blast.
One other 9 injured had been taken to the Afghanistan Emergency Hospital.
There was no instant declare of accountability for the assault. In latest weeks, the militant Islamic State group has carried out a collection of bombing and capturing assaults. IS is a rival of the Taliban, and has stepped up assaults because the Taliban took management of Afghanistan in a swift army marketing campaign in August.
