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Rockets struck a neighbourhood near Kabul’s international airport amid the ongoing US withdrawal from Afghanistan. It wasn’t immediately clear who launched them. The rockets struck Monday morning in Kabul’s Salim Karwan neighbourhood, witnesses said.
Gunfire immediately followed the explosions but it wasn’t immediately clear who was firing. A witness who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals said they heard the sound of three explosions and then saw a flash, like fire, in the sky.
People fled after the blasts, the witness said. U.S. officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. U.S. military cargo planes continued their evacuations at the airport after the rocket fire.
Meanwhile , according to media reports, nine members of one family — including six children — were killed in a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, a relative of the dead told a local journalist working with CNN.
The US carried out a defensive airstrike in Kabul, targeting a suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber who posed an “imminent” threat to the airport, US Central Command said Sunday.
The youngest killed was a 2-year-old girl, according to a brother of the one of those killed. They were “an ordinary family,” he said. “We are not ISIS or Daesh and this was a family home — where my brothers lived with their families.”
