Key Highlights
- In the first few minutes after the blast, a police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, had identified the facility affected as a hotel.
- The Italian NGO, EMERGENCY, said its surgical centre in Kabul had received 20 people from the blast, including seven who were already dead when they arrived.
- It noted the number of casualties was “still provisional”.
- Those injured included four women and a child, the organisation’s Country Director in Afghanistan, Dejan Panic, said.
- “The wounded, some of whom are being assessed for surgery, have suffered lacerations and bruises,” he added.
