![]() ![]() service members, from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. President Joe Biden speaks about the bombings at the Kabul airport that killed at least 12 U.S. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said earlier that one of the explosions happened “at the airport’s Abbey Gate” and “at least one other explosion happened at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate.” The identities and units of those killed won’t be announced until Friday after relatives are notified, he added. Ten Marines were among the troops killed and several more were wounded, Marine spokesman Maj. ![]() Photos showed apparently injured people being transported away from the scene in wheelbarrows. Footage posted to social media on Thursday after the explosions showed chaotic scenes of crowds of people trying to help the wounded amid bodies on the ground. Thousands of Afghans have been gathering at the airport’s gates in recent days in hopes of being evacuated. The President said that while he does not trust the Taliban, it was in the best interests of both the United States and the Taliban to try and prevent an attack from ISIS. The risk of potential suicide attacks by ISIS-K had already led the US to establish alternative routes to Kabul airport, earlier on in the evacuation operation.īiden said he didn’t feel that it had been a mistake to rely on the Taliban to provide security outside the airport. Earlier on Thursday local time, US diplomats in Kabul warned American citizens to “immediately” leave several gates into the airport, citing security threats. US officials have been warning over the past week that a threat of a terror attack at the airport was becoming more acute. He had also promised a swift and forceful response to any disruption to the operation.Ī person wounded in the explosion outside the airport arrives at a hospital in Kabul. In previous days, the President had cited the risk of a terror attack among the reasons for getting US troops out of the country by August 31. ![]() US officials have said the group was likely behind the attack, and Biden on Thursday announced that he had ordered US military commanders “to develop operational plans to strike ISIS-K assets, leadership and facilities.” ISIS in Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, has claimed that an ISIS militant carried out the suicide attack, but provided no evidence to support the claim. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” he warned the perpetrators of the attack. US President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House, called the troops “heroes” and said he was “outraged as well as heartbroken.” Bill Urban of US Central Command (Centcom). The deadly blasts came as the United States and other Western countries raced to complete a massive evacuation of their citizens and Afghan allies following the Taliban takeover of the country.Īn official with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health told CNN on Thursday that more than 60 Afghan people were dead and 140 wounded.Įighteen US service members were injured in addition to the 13 dead, said Capt. Thirteen US service members and at least 60 Afghans have been killed in two bombing attacks outside Kabul’s airport, according to the Pentagon and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health. ![]()
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