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Taliban suicide bombers hit Hospital in Kabul
21 May 2011 Last updated at 11:09
Afghanistan: Suicide bombers attack Kabul hospital
Six people have been killed and 23 wounded in an explosion at a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Afghan defence ministry says.
An Afghan intelligence official told the BBC that two suicide attackers had got inside Charsad Bestar Hospital.
One had blown himself up in the hospital canteen near the military wing while the other had yet to be found.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said his organisation carried out the attack.
A doctor said: "As soon as the explosion took place, everyone started running from the cafeteria area."
He added: "It was a lunch-time. We have been locked inside our rooms and departments because the other attacker is still somewhere."
The 400-bed Charsad Bestar Hospital was built in the 1970s. It treated soldiers wounded during the Soviet occupation, people injured in the civil war that followed their retreat and, more recently, senior Taliban and al-Qaeda commanders.
After the fall of the Taliban, Western countries invested millions of dollars in the hospital, upgrading its facilities and installing state-of-the-art medical equipment and supplying air ambulances.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says security there is usually very tight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13483023
Afghanistan: Suicide bombers attack Kabul hospital
Six people have been killed and 23 wounded in an explosion at a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Afghan defence ministry says.
An Afghan intelligence official told the BBC that two suicide attackers had got inside Charsad Bestar Hospital.
One had blown himself up in the hospital canteen near the military wing while the other had yet to be found.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said his organisation carried out the attack.
A doctor said: "As soon as the explosion took place, everyone started running from the cafeteria area."
He added: "It was a lunch-time. We have been locked inside our rooms and departments because the other attacker is still somewhere."
The 400-bed Charsad Bestar Hospital was built in the 1970s. It treated soldiers wounded during the Soviet occupation, people injured in the civil war that followed their retreat and, more recently, senior Taliban and al-Qaeda commanders.
After the fall of the Taliban, Western countries invested millions of dollars in the hospital, upgrading its facilities and installing state-of-the-art medical equipment and supplying air ambulances.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says security there is usually very tight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13483023
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