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Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly Kabul airport attack

Updated: 2021-08-27 03:30

This August 23, 2021, satellite image courtesy of MAXAR, shows the area around the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Two explosions struck near the Abbey Gate of Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, causing multiple casualties in what the US military labelled a "complex attack" that took place as countries raced to complete evacuations from Afghanistan. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said there were "a number" of US and civilian casualties in the bombings. [Photo/Agencies]

CAIRO - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday, the group's Amaq News Agency said on its Telegram channel.

A suicide bomber from the Islamist militant group "managed to reach a large gathering of translators and collaborators with the American army at 'Baran Camp' near Kabul Airport and detonated his explosive belt among them, killing about 60 people and wounding more than 100 others, including Taliban fighters," it said.

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