Nothing less than 28 people have been confirmed dead and more than 300 injured after an explosion rocked Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning.
This was confirmed by the Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi, after a suicide car bomber targeted the office of a security team protecting government VIPs caused the explosion.
First a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden lorry on the gate of the department and then other armed attackers went in and started shooting on the rest of the enemies, CNN reports.
However,Afghan President, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani condemned the terrorist attack in Pule Mahmood Khan area, Kabul, which martyred and injured a number of Afghan innocent civilians in strongest terms,” a statement released by the president’s office read.