Dead and injured after huge explosion in central Kabul

The centre of the Afghan capital Kabul Saturday by a huge explosion startled.

The blast occurred just before 09.30 hours Belgian time, according to witnesses in the district where the offices of the ministry of Internal Affairs and of the European Union are located. According to the ministry of Domestic Affairs, was the explosion a bomauto.

Quoted by the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera daring spokesman Waheed Majrooh of the Gezondsheidsministerie of at least 31 wounded to hospitals are transferred. The Italian ngo Emergency says that more than fifty wounded to the hospital of the organization are transferred. There were also ‘several injured’.

Yet according to al-Jazeera, spoke to witnesses at least three explosions.

Last weekend, fell in an attack on the prestigious Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul 43 dead. At least four gunmen invaded Saturday night into the hotel and opened fire on the audience. It took more than 12 hours before all of the attendants freed. The attack was claimed by the taliban.