In a daring terror strike carried out by gunmen in western part of capital Kabul, Fourteen people, including two infants, were killed at a maternity hospital, the Interior Affairs Ministry of Afghanistan said.
Security forces shut down the attack after five hours, with the killing of four attackers who an eyewitness said were wearing Afghan military uniforms, Tolo News reported.
According to the Interior Affairs Ministry 72 civilians, including children, were rescued in the attack.
According to Tolo News report, Taliban denied any involvement in the attack on the 100-bed government-run hospital in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of PD13 in western Kabul, which has sparked strong condemnation from the international community.
India has strongly condemned the “barbaric” terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, including one on a maternity hospital in Kabul that killed two newborns and a dozen others and on a funeral and a military check post in Afghanistan, terming them as “crimes against humanity.”
A statement from the Ministry of External Affairs said: “India strongly condemns the barbaric terrorist attacks against innocent civilians, including women and children, at the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital maternity ward, funeral in Nangarhar province and the army check post in Laghman province on 11-12 May.”
Meanwhile in another strike , in Nangarhar, in the east of Afghanistan, a funeral ceremony was hit by an explosion in which 24 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded, according to sources.
Citing eye-witnesses, Tolo News reported that explosion happened in a crowd of people who were gathered for the funeral of Shaikh Akram, a former commander of public uprising forces in Shewa.
The attacks also claimed the life of Abdullah Malikzai, a member of Nangarhar’s provincial council.
