Two blasts at a military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, injured at least 16 people on Tuesday.
It was unclear if anyone was killed in the explosions at the Daoud Khan Military Hospital, a teaching facility in Kabul’s diplomatic district.
Special forces have arrived on the scene, according to Taliban officials.
A doctor at the nearby Wazir Akbar Khan government hospital, who was receiving arriving patients, stated that seven people had been injured thus far.
He reported that all of them were males and that two of them were in severe condition. He stated he didn’t know if the patients from the neighbouring military hospital were guests, medical professionals, or patients when they were injured by the explosives.
Furthermore, the humanitarian NGO “Emergency” stated that nine injured people had been transported to their hospital in Kabul.
Previously, the Daoud Khan Military Hospital was assaulted. In 2011, suicide attackers with Taliban affiliations blew themselves up inside the institution, killing six people and injuring 26 more.
In 2017, gunmen dressed as medical staff assaulted the hospital, murdering at least 30 people after a six-hour siege that ended with the assailants being slain by Afghan security forces. ISIS took credit for the bombing.
Since the extreme Islamist Taliban organization ousted the Western-backed government in August, Afghanistan has been in crisis. Billions of dollars in assistance were halted and the international community has warned that the country would soon collapse into chaos.
Last Friday, three guests were shot dead at a wedding reception in eastern Afghanistan, apparently because music was being played.