Posted on 11/27/2020 4:25:14 AM PST by xomething
The blast happened around 5 pm local time
At least 17 people were killed when two explosions on Tuesday rocked a busy market in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, a central region that has until now been considered the country’s safest.
The blast happened around 5pm local time with provincial spokesperson Latif Azimi saying that civilians were deliberately targeted in the neighbourhood, which is home mostly to the Shia minority of Hazara people.
“Local people were working and shopping in the area, many were on their way home. There wasn’t any military nearby,” he told The Telegraph.
No group has yet claimed the attack, but the Islamic State has previously targeted Shia minorities throughout Afghanistan.
Videos emerging on social media showed chaos and carnage, with people lying on the street covered in blood while others try to run for safety or evacuate injured people from the attack’s scene. At least 59 people were injured.
“We are shocked. Bamyan has always been considered a peaceful province, sheltered from much of the war and fighting. We won’t allow violence to take over,” Mr Azimi said. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Wow, right on time to make a point about Trump trying to pull our troops out.
I smell a CIA operation.
Is it worth our money and the lives of our soldiers to try to reform a hellhole that wants to stay a hellhole?
No more $45 million gas stations to be built.
No, it ain't.. A people that won't fight for themselves don't deserve freedom and the prosperity that comes with it..
And that applies to us as well.! You get the government you deserve, and considering our behavior as of late, we are about to get our just deserts.. :(
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