'ISIS suicide bomber' kills 13 at Kabul airport: Multiple casualties - including children and three US Marines - as two explosions tear through crowd, hours after Westerners were warned to stay away because of ISIS attack
Two explosions at Kabul airport have killed at least 13 people, including children, and injured at least three US troops just hours after intelligence officials warned of an imminent threat to the crowd gathered there trying to escape the Taliban.
The first blast was caused by an ISIS suicide bomber in a vest, detonating outside The Baron Hotel, at the Abbey Gate of Kabul airport, according to Fox News and Politico. Westerners were staying in the hotel before their evacuation flights.
A second explosion was reported at the airport's Abbey Gate, where crowds have bee gathering for more than a week in the hope of being put on one of the evacuation flights out. That explosion was caused by a car bomb, according to unconfirmed reports. Two explosions at Kabul airport have killed at least 13 people, including children, and injured at least three US troops just hours after intelligence officials warned of an imminent threat to the crowd gathered there trying to escape the Taliban.
The first blast was caused by an ISIS suicide bomber in a vest, detonating outside The Baron Hotel, at the Abbey Gate of Kabul airport, according to Fox News and Politico. Westerners were staying in the hotel before their evacuation flights.
A second explosion was reported at the airport's Abbey Gate, where crowds have bee gathering for more than a week in the hope of being put on one of the evacuation flights out. That explosion was caused by a car bomb, according to unconfirmed reports. Source
⚠️Graphic Warning.
— Afghan Times (@AllowMeFriends) August 26, 2021
Scenes after Kabul Airport bomb blast. Extremely painful. Indian Back ISIS claimed Responsibility pic.twitter.com/W9sEAXR4CO
Extreme Graphic Warning!
— Wajahat Kazmi (@KazmiWajahat) August 26, 2021
I hate sharing footage like this but it's important right now to show the world how terribly the Afghan people have been suffering over the decades.
Extremely inhumane scenes after the explosion outside #KabulAirport.#Kabul #Taliban #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/0cuxtgtarZ
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