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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It was another ISIS attack on Baghdad - a car packed with explosives was blown up in southern Baghdad and at least 55 people have died with another more than 60 injured. This is believed to be the deadliest such attack in Iraq this year.
The vehicle which blew up was parked in a crowded street full of garages and used car dealers. The death toll is expected to go up because many of the wounded are in critical condition.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 17 February 2017.

Islamic State has, through an online statement, claimed responsibility for the bombing. Since it is being forced to surrender captured territories, it has increased strikes on government areas, especially in the capital Baghdad.
The bombing is the second to target car markets this week and has been chosen probably because the group finds it easier to leave vehicles laden with explosives in places where hundreds of other vehicles are parked.
Incidentally, a suicide bomber had detonated a pick-up truck one day earlier in the Sadr City suburb and killed at least 15 people. That was also in a street full of used car dealers.


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A couple of blasts struck near the Afghan Parliament in Kabul and left at least 30 people dead with another 80 wounded.It was a rush-hour attack by the Taliban and it broke a relative lull in violence in the capital.
The bombings happened hours after a Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the volatile southern province of Helmand, as the militants ramp up attacks.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 11 January 2017.

It seems a suicide bomber on foot carried out the first explosion, leaving a number of innocent workers killed and wounded. The second one was a car bomb in a vehicle that was parked on the other side of the road.
The blasts left 30 people dead and 80 wounded - some of the wounded are in serious condition and the death toll was expected to rise. The dead included at least four policemen - they were killed in the second explosion when they rushed to help the victims of the first blast.
This attack underscores the growing insecurity in Afghanistan, where there are around 10,000 U.S. troops who are helping the Afghan forces to combat a resilient Taliban insurgency as well as al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants.


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A car bomb has killed at least 43 people, most of them civilians, in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz on the border with Turkey. Dozens more are wounded in the attack that happened in front of an Islamic courthouse near a market, s indicated by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Azaz is a major stronghold of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA).
No agency has claimed responsibility for the latest attack.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 7 January 2017.

The toll was likely to rise in the attack. This was the latest in a string of bombings to hit Azaz that have previously been blamed on ISIS. As SOHR chief has added - identification of the dead was hampered by the fact that some of the bodies were completely burned in the blast.
Till now more than 310,000 people have been killed in Syria ever since the conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.


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A total of 13 soldiers were killed and 48 more injured in a car bomb attack in the Turkish city of Kayseri. The car bomb hit a bus that was transporting off-duty military personnel in the central Turkish city. This incident comes one week after a twin bombing targeted police in Istanbul.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 17 December 2016.

Last week's bombing left 44 dead and wounded more than 150 and these blasts have angered a Turkish public that is frustrated by a string of deadly bombings this year - some of these have been claimed by Kurdish militants. However, no agency has claimed responsibility for the car bomb in Kayseri.
It seems the bus transporting the military was stopped at a red light near the campus of Erciyes University in Kayseri when a car approached it and detonated the car bomb. Kurdish militants have previously targeted buses that were carrying military or security forces.
Turkey is faced with multiple security threats including spillover from the fight against Islamic State in northern Syria - there Turkey is a member of a U.S.-led coalition against the militant group. Turkey also faces regular attacks from Kurdish militants.


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An official of the police have indicated that eight civilians have been killed in the blast and more than 10 others wounded but the death toll could rise because the area is a market and it was densely populated when the blast occurred. Most of those wounded have serious injuries.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 26 November 2016.

Unconfirmed sources had suggested nearly 30 people had been killed, but this was not confirmed by authorities. The ambulance service have indicated about collecting 13 wounded civilians and 28 dead bodies and the toll could be higher. The blast happened in the densely populated Afisiyone area in southern Mogadishu.
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#CopticChristians #Egypt #ISIS #Qubba #Libya #carbomb #gasstation There are reports of a car bomb that struck a town in eastern Libya which is, at present, under control of the country's internationally recognized government. At least 30 people were killed in the attack and an army spokesman has put the blame on Islamic militants. This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 20 February 2015.
The bombing has taken place after a video had surfaced that showed the beheading of 21 abducted Egyptian Coptic Christians at the hands of Libya's branch of the Islamic State group. This has resulted in Egypt carrying airstrikes on IS positions in Libya. It also raised fears that the extremist group has spread its tentacles beyond the battlefields of Iraq and Syria and had set up a major strategic foothold closer to European shores.
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