The attack in Kabul

In Kabul, at least 80 people were killed and more than 350 were injured as a result of the explosion that occurred near the entrance to the German embassy. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the local police.

Most of the dead are local residents near the scene of the explosion. Among the dead there are also guards of the embassy, ​​some of its employees were injured. In addition, four BBC journalists suffered and a driver from among local residents who transported the radio station reporters.

As a result of the attack, the building of the German diplomatic mission was damaged, the destruction also affected the embassies of France, Turkey and China. There is no information about the injured diplomats of other countries except Germany.

The bomb was hidden in a wastewater tank. The agency notes that the explosion that had happened was an “unusual force”. As a result, in buildings, hundreds of meters around knocked out windows and doors. One of the victims compared what happened to the earthquake.

The Kabul police said that the goal of the attack could not be a German embassy. In the center of the Afghan capital there are many other institutions that could become the target of terrorists, law enforcement officers noted.

"Such attacks will not change our determination to continue to support the government of Afghanistan in stabilizing the situation in the country," said Germany Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel. In turn, the head of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Thomas de Mezier, announced the abolition in connection with the attack terrorist attack to Afghanistan, on which the party of illegal migrants was supposed to be deported from Germany.

The terrorist attack occurred on the first day of the Muslims of the month of Ramadan.

Representatives of the Taliban said that the movement was not involved in the terrorist attack, since they never attack civilians, choosing only “legal” goals for their shares. Later, Afghan television reported that the Islamic State took responsibility for the attack. IG used to arrange similar attacks in Afghanistan in Afghanistan. In March, about 50 people died during the attack on a military hospital in Kabul.