Source: Dawn
KABUL: At least 24 people were killed and 91 wounded on Monday in a double suicide bombing in central Kabul during late afternoon rush hour, the latest assault on the Afghan capital.
The carnage near the defence ministry came as the Taliban ramp up their nationwide summer offensive against the US-backed government.
The two bombers on foot blew themselves up in rapid succession, in an assault apparently aimed at inflicting mass casualties as government employees left the ministry after work.
“The first explosion occurred on a bridge near the defence ministry. When soldiers, policemen and civilians rushed to the scene, there was the second explosion,” defence ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish told AFP.
Health ministry spokesman Waheed Majroh said the attack left 24 people dead and 91 others wounded, some of them seriously.
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