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4 dead, 90 wounded including 23 children in Kabul blast

picture credits: TOLO NEWS

A powerful blast rocked the Kabul city on Monday evening in which four people have died and 90 are wounded. The Interior Minister of Afghanistan Najib Danish has said that the wounded include 23 children, 12 women and 65 men.

“The victims of the blast that shocked Kabul today evening claimed four lives including three military and one civilian, 90 injured including 23 children, 12 women and 65 men with majority of them civilians,” Danish said in a post on his Twitter hours after the blast on Monday.

Without providing more details, Danish asserted that the terrorists conducted a car bombing against Green Village camp in Police District 9 and police are in control of the situation there, reports Xinhua news agency.

Green Village camp is a well-protected area next to the main office of Afghan election commission in the eastern edge of Kabul city where a number of foreign security offices and entities located and often frequented by foreigners living or working in Kabul.

President Ashraf Ghani meanwhile condemned the attack and labeled it inhuman and against Islam, reported the TOLONews.

Ghani directed relevant organizations to investigate the attack and address the needs of those who are wounded and families of the victims.

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