Iran condemns deadly terror attack against hospital in Afghan capital
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned a deadly terrorist attack that targeted a hospital in the heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, the ministry’s spokesman, on Tuesday expressed sympathy with the bereaved families of the victims of the terror attack that hit the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Hospital, the country’s largest, in central Kabul, earlier in the day. He also wished recovery for the injured.
The Iranian official said any act of terrorism targeting ordinary people is condemned.
At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 injured by the two back-to-back powerful multiple explosions at the entrance of the military hospital, located in Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan area.
The explosions, followed by indiscriminate gunfire, led to chaos inside and outside the busy hospital.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but according to Kabul-based Bakhtar News Agency, a number of Daesh terrorists had entered the hospital and clashed with security forces.
The hospital had come under terrorist attack in 2017, when gunmen disguising as medical personnel killed at least 30 people.
There have been a series of terrorist attacks across Afghanistan in recent weeks, mostly claimed by the Daesh terrorist group, which is engaged in fierce power rivalry with the Taliban.
Today’s attack is the worst since the twin bombings outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul late August, which killed at least 175 people.
Iran dispatches more humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Meanwhile, Iran handed over the 11th consignment of humanitarian aid to Taliban officials on Monday.
The shipment consisted of five trucks carrying 20 tons of food, 50 tons of rice and warm clothes.
Iran has been sending humanitarian and medical aid to Afghanistan over the past two months, particularly after terrorist incidents in the cities of Kunduz and Kandahar.
More than 60 people were killed and over 80 wounded in three back-to-back explosions that hit the Bibi Fatima mosque during Friday prayers on October 15, one of the biggest blasts in Kandahar. It came just a week after a bomb attack killed more than 150 people and left scores of others injured at a Shia mosque in the northeastern city of Kunduz.
Both tragedies were claimed by a local affiliate of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, which has a long history of attacking Afghanistan’s Shia minority.
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