Kabul: double suicide bombing kills dozens in Afghan capital

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Source: The Guardian

At least 25 people have died in a coordinated double suicide bombing that hit central Kabul on Monday morning.

Six journalists, including a camera operator for a local TV station and an Agence France-Presse photographer, were among those killed after the second bomber blew himself up among the rescue workers and reporters who had rushed to the scene of the first blast.

At least 45 people were wounded in the attacks, the police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said. Four police officers were among those killed. The first suicide bomber was on a motorbike, he added.

The attack was the latest in a string of deadly large-scale bombings and assaults that have struck the capital and other Afghan cities so far this year. Islamic State claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on its Amaq propaganda news agency.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/30/kabul-explosions-hit-city-centre-attack

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It never ends.