4 dead, 66 wounded in Kabul attack on Military Hospital

[BHarwana]

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Ahmad Shah Erfanyar
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Mar 08, 2017 - 14:52
KABUL (Pajhwok): Four people, most civilians, were killed and 66 others wounded in militants attack on Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Military Hospital in capital Kabul on Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said.

Syed Ismael Kawasi, public relation officer of the MoPH, told Pajhwok Afghan News the injured had been shifted to Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan and Emergency Hospitals.

Men were among the dead while women, a child and nine men were injured, he added.

But Gen. Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), said two people, including an attacker, were killed and three others wounded in the attack.

Earlier, three terrorists forced their way into the hospital after one detonated himself at the northern gate of the facility, said MoD statement.

Waziri said the assailants who wore doctors’ uniform reached to the second and third floor of the hospital and started firing.

Daesh also known as Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack.

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http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2017/03/08/4-dead-66-wounded-kabul-attack-moph

 

[shahbaz baig]

Afghanistan should think about this "Question" that who is behind Daesh ? (US including India! am i right or right?)
i was really expecting this in Afghanistan after reading this News (link is below)

Afghan Taliban’s political negotiators visit China

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1348055/afghan-talibans-political-negotiators-visit-china/

 

[Russell]

30 dead - more than 50 injured

https://twitter.com/x/status/839448921197903872

 

[BHarwana]

Over 30 dead in attack on military hospital in Kabul – defense ministry

The attack on Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in Kabul has left more than 30 people dead, the Defense Ministry said. Several gunmen, dressed as doctors, attacked the facility near the US Embassy early on Wednesday, engaging special forces units.
Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said there were “more than 30 killed and more than 50 wounded” in the attack.

Waziri said security forces have taken full control of the facility, adding that the fighting is over.

According to AP, more than 60 people have been injured.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the assault on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital, Afghan TOLO News reported.
A security official told Reuters that the attack began with an explosion at the rear of the hospital, when between three to five gunmen toting automatic weapons and hand grenades entered the building.

The attackers, dressed as medical personnel, had taken position on the hospital’s upper floors, engaging special forces units that rushed to the scene.

As fighting continued, a second explosion was heard.

Abdul Qadir, a worker at the hospital, told Reuters that a number of gunmen appeared to be inside the hospital. He said he saw one gunmen dressed as a doctor take out an AK-47 and open fire, killing at least one patient and one hospital worker. He also heard shots from several other points.
Medical staff trapped in the facility posted desperate messages for help on social media.

“Attackers are inside the hospital. Pray for us,” a hospital staff member wrote on Facebook, according to AFP.

“The attackers are shooting everywhere,” administrator Abdul Hakim told the news agency by telephone.

The 400-bed military hospital is located near two civilian hospitals in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of Kabul, home to several heavily guarded embassies.

The NATO-led Resolute Support mission said it was ready to assist Afghan security services, Reuters reported.

“Our forces are there, and there is heavy fighting,” Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said.

Afghan helicopters circled over the area, surrounded by Afghan security forces, AP reported.

According to TOLO News, the assailants apparently first set off an explosion at the entrance of the building before entering the facility. A security source told the media outlet that at least five suicide bombers targeted the hospital.
Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the defense ministry, said a number of attackers have entered the hospital.

“Our security forces are on location fighting the attackers but also keeping in mind to not cause any casualties, so it is a difficult situation,” he told Al Jazeera.

President Ashraf Ghani has condemned the attack.

“There is an ongoing terrorist attack in a hospital which tramples all human values,” he said.

“In all religions, a hospital is regarded as an immune site and attacking it is attacking the whole of Afghanistan,” Ghani noted.

The latest attack comes after at least 15 people were killed and wounded in coordinated attacks on a police station and an intelligence service office in Kabul last Wednesday, which were claimed by Taliban militants.
https://www.rt.com/news/379804-kabul-center-explosion-gunfire/

They still have gun men inside the hospital?

 

[Hindustani78]

Afghan policemen leap from a vehicle as they arrive at the site of an explosion in Kabul on Wednesday.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...ry-hospital/article17426581.ece?homepage=true
The attack claimed by the Islamic State group on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital leaves 50 wounded.
Gunmen dressed as doctors stormed Afghanistan's largest military hospital on Wednesday, killing more than 30 people in a six-hour attack claimed by the Islamic State group as it makes inroads into the war-battered country.

Around 50 others were wounded in the assault on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital, with explosions and gunfire rattling Kabul's diplomatic district as dense clouds of smoke rose in the sky.

Medical staff hunkered down in the hospital wards posted desperate messages for help on social media. Television footage showed some of them trapped on the ledge of a top-floor window.“Attackers are inside the hospital. Pray for us,” a hospital staff member wrote on Facebook.

Hospital administrators told AFP that three gunmen, wearing white coats were on the loose after a suicide bomber on foot blew himself up at the backdoor entrance, sparking chaos inside the 400-bed facility.

“I saw one of the attackers, armed with an AK-47 and dressed as doctor, shooting at patients and guards on the third floor,” hospital nurse Abdul Qadeer told AFP.

“They shot my friend but I managed to flee... I had to jump over the barbed wire to escape.”

Smoke emanating from a military hospital at the site of blast and gunfire in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Reuters

At least two other loud explosions — including what the defense ministry called a car bomb in the hospital's parking lot — were heard as Afghan special forces launched a clearance operation to rein in the attackers.

“Three attackers armed with AK-47s and grenades entered the building. Our commandos are chasing them,” Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told AFP four hours after the first explosion.

“One of them has been killed, but two others are still resisting on the sixth and seventh floors of the building. We have evacuated all the patients.”

‘Criminal act’
Afghanistan's warring parties, including government forces, have repeatedly targeted medical facilities, decimating the country's fragile health system and preventing conflict displaced civilians from accessing life saving care.


“This is a criminal act. Nothing can justify an attack on hospitals,” Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah said of the latest attack.

“We will never forgive these criminals. Unfortunately, this attack has resulted in some casualties.”

Islamic State jihadists claimed the attack via a verified Telegram account.

The Taliban said they could neither confirm nor deny that they were behind the attack. The militant group, Afghanistan's largest, is known to distance itself from attacks on medical facilities or those that result in high civilian casualties.

The assault comes just a week after 16 people were killed in simultaneous Taliban suicide assaults on two security compounds in Kabul.

Dozens of others were wounded as a suicide car bomber struck an Afghan police precinct in western Kabul and a five-hour gun battle ensued after another attacker snuck in.

In the second attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of an Afghan intelligence agency branch in eastern Kabul.

The growing violence underscores rising insecurity in Afghanistan over the resurgent Taliban.

The country is bracing for an intense fighting season in the spring as the government's repeated bids to launch peace negotiations with the Taliban have failed.

Afghan forces, already beset by record casualties, desertions and non-existent “ghost soldiers” on the payrolls, have been struggling to beat back the Taliban since US-led NATO troops ended their combat mission in December 2014.

Kabul last month endorsed U.S. general John Nicholson's call for thousands of additional coalition troops in Afghanistan to fend off the militants before the spring offensive.

Extra troops were needed to end the stalemate in the war, Gen. Nicholson, top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told the U.S. Congress in what could be President Donald Trump's first major test of military strategy.

 

[truthseer]

You reap what you sow.

 

[Russell]

You reap what you sow.

If an Indian said this about Pakistan or Pakistani victims of terrorists what would your reaction be?

 

[BHarwana]

It is time for Afghanistan to ditch the bitch.

 

[truthseer]

If an Indian said this about Pakistan or Pakistani victims of terrorists what would your reaction be?

That I'm only sad it didn't happen in India.

 

[Spring Onion]

RIP .sad to hear about loss of lives

 

[Areesh]

RIP. Its complete madness in Afghanistan. The terrorists seem to have gained ability to attack Kabul whenever they want to.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://indianexpress.com/article/wo...tack-that-left-three-dead-60-injured-4560449/

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:March 8, 2017 6:38 pm

Afghan commandos were dropped onto the roof of the Sardar Daud hospital. (Source: Reuters)

Terrorist in guise of doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul, killing at least 30 people and injuring 60 others, said Afghan officials, adding that the final count could be much higher. The terrorist unleashed a fierce gun battle with the security forces, before they were taken down by Afghan commandos. Later, the interior ministry also said in a brief statement that all the attackers had been killed by the commandos, who landed on the Sardar Duad Hospital. The attack started at 9 am, local time, when one of the terrorists blew himself up near the south gate of the hospital, while three others attackers entered the compound from the second gate, BBC reported.

The remaining attackers traced their way to the third floor of the hospital – carrying small arms and hand grenades – spraying bullets at the fleeing staff members. One of the staff members, who was able to get away, told reporters that the terrorists are ‘wearing a white coat holding a Kalashnikov and opening fire on everyone, including the guards, patients and doctors’.

Six hours after the attack had begun, interior ministry spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi tweeted that special forces had ended their operation and all the attackers were dead. Afghan deputy leader Abdullah Abdullah also condemned and tweeted that he would “avenge the blood of our people.”

The Islamic state has claimed responsibility for the operation.


The Islamic state has been active in Afghanistan since 2015 and has carried out a number of attacks in the country, including a suicide attack at Kabul’s Supreme Court last month that killed at least 22 people.

 

[The Eagle]

@BHarwana w.r.t. your request, title remains as it is, per OP/Article headline however, further development be posted as per subject that title cannot be changed from time to time.

 

[salarsikander]

Shame on NATO what did they do for 13 years ?

 

[BHarwana]

@BHarwana w.r.t. your request, title remains as it is, per OP/Article headline however, further development be posted as per subject that title cannot be changed from time to time.

I wrote the request as the title was from the very first reports of the incident but the updated news now have recent reports.
If you can please update the title to the quoted post below.

Over 30 dead in attack on military hospital in Kabul – defense ministry

The attack on Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in Kabul has left more than 30 people dead, the Defense Ministry said. Several gunmen, dressed as doctors, attacked the facility near the US Embassy early on Wednesday, engaging special forces units.
Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said there were “more than 30 killed and more than 50 wounded” in the attack.

Waziri said security forces have taken full control of the facility, adding that the fighting is over.

According to AP, more than 60 people have been injured.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the assault on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital, Afghan TOLO News reported.
A security official told Reuters that the attack began with an explosion at the rear of the hospital, when between three to five gunmen toting automatic weapons and hand grenades entered the building.

The attackers, dressed as medical personnel, had taken position on the hospital’s upper floors, engaging special forces units that rushed to the scene.