Kabul attack death toll rises to 64

The death toll from yesterday’s suicide bomb and gun attack in Kabul has risen to 64 killed, more than double the total previously estimated by police.

There were also 347 wounded, an interior ministry spokesman said.

He said most of those killed in the car bomb attack, which hit a security services office in the heart of the government and diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, were civilians.

The Taliban claimed responsibility, which came a week after the insurgents launched their annual spring offensive.

It was the deadliest single attack in Kabul since 2011 when about 60 people died in a suicide blast outside a mosque.

Yesterday’s attack will reinforce concerns in Afghanistan and the West that the country is being dragged into a worsening spiral of violence.
   [rte.ie]
 20/4/16
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