Car bomb kills at lesat 80 in Kabul near foreign embassies

A powerful car bomb has exploded in the center of Afghanistan's capital which is believed to be the safest place near the presidential palace with many embassies in the neighborhood. The death toll is around 80 with more than 350 injured and the toll could increase.
The toll figures have been confirmed by Afghanistan's public health ministry.
This is reported in abc.net.au dated 31 May 2017.

The blast was in a car bomb near the German embassy, and it happened at the peak of Kabul's rush hour, when roads were packed with commuters. The force of the blast has damaged or destroyed at least 30 vehicles. Incidentally, the neighborhood is considered to be a safe area, with foreign embassies protected by dozens of three-metre-high blast walls and government offices guarded by police and national security forces.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast so far.


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This is not like events like jallikattu and manjuvirattu where the bulls are let loose into the arena and tamers have to hold on to the humps of the animals for a particular period of time to be declared winners. In vadamadu manjuvirattu, the animal is tied to a pole and the participants have to tame it within a stipulated time.
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According to the police, the bull-tamer had tried to hold on to a bull, but it attacked him and he suffered severe injuries to his neck. He was shifted to a nearby hospital but he died without responding to the treatment. The event was conducted by the youth wing of BJP and the party's Tamil Nadu state president took part in the event and distributed prizes to the winners.


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This has been reported in indiatimes.com dated 21 may 2017.

Reinforcements have been sent to the area and fighting was also going in another nearby district, but the extent of casualties was not readily known. It seems the Taliban offensives have reappeared because American and allied officials are considering reinforcing the military setup by sending some more military advisers to help train and assist the Afghan security forces who are battling a 16-year-long Taliban insurgency.


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This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 15 May 2017.

A second airstrike destroyed an IS post in the city of Aana and left another six militants dead. An international airstrike also bombed a booby-trapped vehicle in which its driver was killed. These actions are taken to drive out the ISIS militants their major stronghold in the western side of Mosul in northern Iraq.


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