Saturday 8 August 2015

35 killed, hundreds wounded after suicide blast hit Afghanistan.

   Two powerful suicide attacks in Afghanistan killed 35 people and wounded hundreds of people. The first attack occured in Kabul, the Afghanistan capital when a truck bomb hit the city, killing 15 people and wounded 240 others. The second attack happened when a suicide bomber struck in the entrance gate of Afghanistan police Academy in Kabul, killing 20 people. According to Washington Post, Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack that hit police Academy but the Taliban did not claimed responsibility for the truck bomb that hit Kabul which left 15 dead. This is the first major attack since Taliban confirmed the dead of its leader Mullah Omar. Hundred of Thousands of people have lost their lives in Afghanistan since the country civil war that led to the Taliban raised to power in the country. The Taliban governnent was toppled when U.S led coalition invade the country after the attack of 9/11 in World Trade Centre. U.S ordered the Taliban government then to handed in Osama Bin Laden to America and closed all terrorist trainning Camps, a request which the Taliban refused. The refusal prompted the then president George Bush to order US military attacks against Taliban military installations which eventually toppled the Taliban.

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