The Taliban, who claimed responsibility for the bombing in Zabul province, have carried out nearly daily attacks since peace talks with the U.S. collapsed.
A powerful early morning suicide truck bomb devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing as many as 20 people and wounding more than 90 others, an official said.
Thursday’s massive explosion destroyed part of the hospital in Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, and left a fleet of ambulances broken and battered.Residents, many of whom had come to see their sick family members, used shawls and blankets to carry the wounded inside the destroyed building, while authorities scrambled to take the most seriously injured to hospitals in nearby Kandahar.
Morning prayers had just finished when worshippers were stunned by the ear-splitting blast that destroyed parts of a mosque adjacent to the hospital and the hospital building, said Mahboob Hakimi, a resident of Qalat.A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said in a tweet that the target was a nearby intelligence office, which he claimed was destroyed and “tens of intelligence operatives killed/wounded.
The provincial governor, Rahmatullah Yarmal, said many of the dead and wounded were women and children. On Twitter, Afghan National Security Forces personnel posted a picture of a 6-month-old child saying they were searching through the rubble for the parents and sought the public’s help.
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