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| Taliban Explosion Rocks Kabul, Killing at Least 40 | |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 40 people were killed and more than 140 other were injured when a bomb placed in an ambulance set off a huge explosion on a busy Kabul street on Saturday, Afghan officials said. | |
| The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. | |
| The attack happened on a guarded street that leads to an old building of the Afghan Interior Ministry and several embassies, officials said. | |
| The Interior Ministry said explosives were placed in an ambulance that managed to pass the first checkpoint at the street’s entrance. | |
| The city’s hospitals were overwhelmed by the number of wounded, and officials feared that the death toll could still rise. | |
| “It’s a massacre,” said Dejan Panic, the coordinator for the Emergency aid organization’s trauma hospitals in Afghanistan. At least 50 people were brought to Emergency’s Kabul hospital. | “It’s a massacre,” said Dejan Panic, the coordinator for the Emergency aid organization’s trauma hospitals in Afghanistan. At least 50 people were brought to Emergency’s Kabul hospital. |
| Waheed Majroh, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said that 140 wounded people had been taken to Kabul hospitals so far. | |
| “It is a critical situation,” Mr. Majroh said. |