An ambulance laden with explosives blew up near a security checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, killing at least 95 and injuring at least 150 more.
Jan. 27 (UPI) — An ambulance laden with explosives blew up near a security checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, killing at least 95 and injuring at least 150 more, officials said.
The explosion came around lunchtime, a particularly busy time for a street that houses government offices and leads to some international embassies, the New York Times reported .
“Most of the victims are civilians,” Kabul Police spokesman Basir Mujahid told Stars and Stripes . “It was a terrible attack that killed women, children, shopkeepers and visitors to the area.”
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, which Dejan Panic, a coordinator for Emergency, an international healthcare non-governmental organization that treated some of the victims, called “a massacre.”
The Times described a chaotic scene on the street following the bombing. Security forces fought each other while family members struggled to track down those hurt in the explosion.
The bombing Saturday came a week after Taliban gunmen attacked the Afghan capital’s Intercontinental Hotel, killing 22 people, including four Americans.
