Kabul airport attack Updates: 90 dead, alert for rockets, vehicle-borne attacks
Kabul airport attack Updates: 90 dead, alert for rockets, vehicle-borne attacks
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KABUL: A day after the upset, the suicide attacks by the alleged ISIS-K gunmen have given way to more pain and agony to several hundred thousand Afghans camping outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.  At least 90 people, mostly Afghan civilians, and 13 US military personnel have been killed and more than 150 injured due to the devastating twin bomb attacks on the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, BBC reported.

Among the Western forces that are carrying out the evacuations, Australia has decided to end the airlift operations. France had already declared that it won’t be evacuating any more people after Friday. Hungary has also said that it has airlifted all its citizens and Afghan partners. Evacuation of civilians have now been on the go after the attacks. flights are taking off regularly US President Joe Biden has sworn revenge on the attackers, saying he would "hunt them down".

Reacting to the Kabul airport blast, Tom Tugendhat, UK Conservative MP and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) has said that whenever Islamist extremists take power, terror follows. "The attack on innocent people at Kabul airport simply trying to escape the horror of Taliban rule shows exactly who the group has brought with them. The pattern is well established - from Nigeria and Mali to Syria and Iraq whenever Islamist extremists take power, terror follows."

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