In a week that was saw 5 bombings in Afghanistan and around 50 people dead, the news of one more bombing comes courtesy of the fundamentalist organization, Taliban. At least 7 people including a woman and three children were the victims of the bombing that took place when a truck carrying them crashed into a roadside bomb last Sunday in eastern Afghanistan.
The previous explosions started with the one at Lashkar Gah, a governor’s guesthouse in Helmand, by a Taliban suicide bomber which killed seven people. Next were the twin bombings at the Afghan parliament at the Capital Kabul. The first one of these happened outside the parliament again through a suicide bomber who killed and wounded several of the parliament staff. As the rescue team approached to help the wounded, another bomb went off in the nearby car taking the lives of at least four policeman. 30 people were killed and more than 80 wounded in this operation. Just hours after that, at least nine people died when explosives hidden in a sofa detonated inside the governor’s compound in southern Kandahar, during a visit by the UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, who escaped the attack with injuries.
Taliban took the credit for the attacks saying, “We planned this attack for quite some time and the plan was to target some senior officers of the intelligence agency.” President Asharf Ghani strongly condemned the Kabul bombings in a statement from the presidential palace. Amnesty International said the bombings indicate that “the Taliban are pressing ahead with a gruesome campaign of violence that makes no effort to spare civilian lives.”
The recent one in which children’s lives were also put at stake show that the radical group are setting no boundaries to their repulsive actions while Afghanistan continues to be in a state of alert.
