KABUL: At least 19 people were killed and 50 others were injured in Kabul after two explosions followed by hit fireply Afghanistan military hospitals, witnesses and Taliban officials said on Tuesday.
Bomber and armed mansi suicide are likely to be behind the attack, officials added.
State Ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosty said the explosion occurred at the entrance of the hospital 400 Sardar bed Mohammad Daud Khan.
“Security forces have been deployed to the area,” he said on Twitter.
The photos distributed by residents showed smoke feathers over the explosion area near the previous diplomatic zone in the Vizir Akbar Khan area in Central Kabul.
There is no claim immediate responsibility.
But the official Bakhtar news agency quoted witnesses saying a number of Islamic state fighters entered the hospital and clashed with security forces.
The explosion added to a continuous list of attacks and murders because the Taliban resolved their victory over a government supported by the previous West in August, damaged their claim to restore security to Afghanistan after a few decades of war.
The Islamic state, which has conducted a series of attacks on mosques and other targets since the Taliban Kabul seizure in August, put up a complex attack at a 400 bed hospital in 2017, killing more than 30 people.
A health worker at the hospital, who managed to escape from the site, said he heard a big explosion followed by a few minutes of shots.
About ten minutes later, there was a second, bigger explosion, he said.
He said it was not clear whether the explosion and shot were within the vast complex of hospitals, the largest military hospital in Afghanistan.