UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) — Dozens of people were killed or wounded Saturday after an explosion ripped through a wedding hall in Afghanistan’s capital, local officials say.
There was no immediate information on the cause of the blast at the Dubai City wedding hall in western Kabul, Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi told The Associated Press.
Bloodbath in the Wedding Hall #Kabul #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/suhYeliFMg
— Drexl Spivey (@RisboLensky) August 17, 2019
Many people in the minority Shiite Muslim Hazara ethic group live in the part of the city where the explosion took place. Both the Taliban and a local ISIS affiliate carry out bloody attacks in the capital.
This is heartbreaking?#Afghanistan https://t.co/M4GA5aNlej
— sanif sultan (@SanifSultan) August 17, 2019
Kabul’s brightly lit wedding halls are known to hold hundreds of people and are a center of community life in a city weary of decades of war, with thousands of dollars spent on a single evening.
First unedited footage from #Kabulhttps://t.co/5xh4ELQ0WLpic.twitter.com/vOCwNX6LDO
— RT (@RT_com) August 17, 2019
Such halls also serve as meeting places. In November at least 55 people were killed after a suicide bomber sneaked into a Kabul wedding hall where hundreds of Muslim religious scholars and clerics had gathered to mark the birthday of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
The life in #Afghanistan is as dark & full of wounds as this. ?#Kabulblast https://t.co/5uPGtyUEx0
— Zakarya Hassani (@ZHassani7) August 17, 2019
“Devastated by the news of a suicide attack inside a wedding hall in Kabul. A heinous crime against our people; how is it possible to train a human and ask him to go and blow himself (up) inside a wedding?!!” Sediq Seddiqi, spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, said in a Twitter post.
This is heartbreaking. Again civilians were killed in a barbaric and tragic incident Kabul. Many lost their lives. For how long we must suffer from terror, violence, and bad regimes. #Afghanistan https://t.co/0eXVErX9ME
— S. Maisam Wahidi (@maisamwahidi) August 17, 2019
There was no immediate information on the cause of the blast at the Dubai City wedding hall in western Kabul, Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi told The Associated Press. Many people in the minority Shiite Muslim Hazara ethic group live in the part of the city where the explosion took place. Both the Taliban and a local ISIS affiliate carry out bloody attacks in the capital.
#Afghanistan: Initial reports says that at least 20 people killed inside the "Dubai City Hotel" after an explosion at a wedding ceremony in #Kabul. pic.twitter.com/j0SNQwNWwb
— Somalia Terror Updates (@SomaliTU) August 17, 2019
Kabul’s brightly lit wedding halls are known to hold hundreds of people and are a center of community life in a city weary of decades of war, with thousands of dollars spent on a single evening.
Suicide attack. Hazara wedding was targeted which implies sectarian motives #Kabul #Afghanistan At least 20 were killed. pic.twitter.com/K7Qz7qkG1i
— Dilsedesh (@Dilsedesh) August 17, 2019
Such halls also serve as meeting places. In November at least 55 people were killed after a suicide bomber sneaked into a Kabul wedding hall where hundreds of Muslim religious scholars and clerics had gathered to mark the birthday of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
#TragicNews – #Kabulblast Initial reports says of that at least 20 people got killed inside the "Dubai City Hotel" after a explosion at a wedding ceremony in #Afghanistan capital city pic.twitter.com/mELYLIoUcH
— Ghulam Abbas Shah (@ghulamabbasshah) August 17, 2019
“Devastated by the news of a suicide attack inside a wedding hall in Kabul. A heinous crime against our people; how is it possible to train a human and ask him to go and blow himself (up) inside a wedding?!!” Sediq Seddiqi, spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, said in a Twitter post.
התמונות שזורמות מאולם האירועים "דובאי" בבירת אפגניסטן – קאבול, שבה נפגעו לפחות 2⃣1⃣ אנשים ממחבל מתאבד שהתפוצץ במהלך חתונה ??#Afghanistan #Kabul #BREAKING@IsraelHayomHeb https://t.co/JhDWSp4gdB
— Dean Shmuel Elmas (@ElmasDean) August 17, 2019
The explosion shattered more than a week of calm in the Afghan capital. Ten days ago a Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces ripped through a busy west Kabul neighborhood in the same district, killing 14 people and wounding 145.
This is most scourge of intolerance against humanity in Afghanistan. Ghani claimed at MOD speech# ANSF provides security for DC& New York, while innocent people get below up in all corners of Kabul. Ghani 🙁 pic.twitter.com/8GNgGliICI
— Shamal Press.com (@ShamalPress) August 17, 2019
Saturday’s blast occurred on the same road as the Aug. 7 explosion
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