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Deadliest attacks in Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 22, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The Taliban attack on an Afghan
intelligence base on Monday in which dozens were killed is among the
deadliest since the fall of the group’s regime in 2001.
Here is a summary of the deadliest attacks, which have all occurred after
2007:
– 2018 –
– December 24: An hours-long bomb and gun attack on a Kabul government
compound kills at least 43 people. The Taliban denies responsibility.
– November 20: A suicide bomber blows himself up among religious scholars
inside a Kabul wedding hall, killing at least 55 people and wounding 94
others.
– April 22: An Islamic State bomber kills 57 people, including women and
children, and wounds more than 100, all civilians, outside a voter
registration centre amid preparations for legislative elections in October.
– September 11: A suicide attack on Afghans protesting the appointment of a
local police chief in the eastern province of Nangarhar kills at least 68
people and wounds another 165.
– January 27: An ambulance packed with explosives detonates in a crowded
street in the heart of Kabul, killing more than 100 people, mostly civilians.
The attack is claimed by the Taliban.
– 2017 –
– October 17: Two separate Taliban suicide and gun attacks on police and
soldiers leave 80 dead and scores wounded.
The deadliest, which claims 60 lives, is on a police compound in the city
of Gardez in Paktia province where militants disguised as police detonate
bomb-filled vehicles that clear the way for gunmen to enter.
Another 15 security officials and five civilians are killed in a separate
ambush in the neighbouring province of Ghazni.
– May 31: More than 150 people are killed and hundreds wounded when a
massive truck bomb rips through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter, shattering
windows hundreds of metres away.
– April 21: Taliban militants in soldiers’ uniforms enter a military base
in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and open fire on unarmed troops at
close range in the mosque and dining hall. At least 135 are killed.
– March 8: Gunmen disguised as doctors storm Afghanistan’s largest military
hospital in Kabul in a six-hour attack claimed by the Islamic State. The
official death toll is 50 but security sources and survivors say it exceeds
100.
– 2016 –
– July 23: Twin explosions rip through crowds of Shiite Hazaras in Kabul,
killing at least 85 people. It marks the first major Islamic State assault on
the capital.
– April 19: A truck bomb followed by a shootout leaves 64 people dead and
nearly 350 injured injured in central Kabul in a Taliban-claimed attack.
– 2011 –
– December 6: An attack in Kabul targeting the Shiite minority on the holy
day of Ashura kills 80 people. A second attack in the northern city of Mazar-
i-Sharif kills another four. The Taliban deny responsibility.
– 2008 –
– July 7: 60 people, including two Indian diplomats and two Indian guards
are killed in a suicide car bombing on the Indian embassy in the capital. The
Taliban say they were not involved.
– February 17: 140 boys and men, including more than 50 auxiliary police
officers, are killed in a suicide attack among a crowd at a dogfight in the
southern city of Kandahar. The Taliban deny responsibility.
– 2007 –
– November 6: 79 people are killed, including 59 children and six
parliamentarians, in a suicide attack on a delegation of VIPs visiting a
sugar factory in Pul-i-Khumri north of Kabul. The Taliban deny involvement.
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