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At least 60 people were killed, including 12 US soldiers, who left the blasts, rocked Kabul airport this afternoon. More than 150 people were injured. The blast is believed to have been committed by a suicide bomber from the local Islamic State unit, Daesh Khorasan.
According to local media, fighters from the US-led coalition in charge of airport security began firing and used gas to disperse the crowd near the eastern entrance, known as the Abbey Gate.
I am shocked by the news from Kabul, the condolences of the families of the victims and the quick recovery of the wounded, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Svetlan Stoev wrote on Twitter.
The first news from Hamid Karzai International Airport in the Afghan capital was that a loud explosion was heard without confirmation of casualties. The information came at a time when the evacuation measures of the Western powers, including the USA and Great Britain, are continuing at the airport. Denmark and the Netherlands have announced that they will stop the evacuation.
“We can confirm an explosion outside the perimeter of Kabul airport,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said earlier on Twitter. „. We will provide further details when we can. “
Earlier, the United States and Britain warned of a potential terrorist attack on the airport in the capital.
According to London, Islamic State, and in particular its Afghan unit Khorasan, will attempt a car bomb attack with great certainty.
That’s why Afghans have been told not to approach the airport, but thousands of them continue to crowd around it, hoping to catch one last evacuation plane. Others, disillusioned, began heading for the border with Pakistan to seek refuge in the neighboring country.
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