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Two Russian embassy staff have been amongst six folks killed in a suicide blast close to Russia’s embassy in Kabul on Monday.
Russia’s international ministry stated in a press release that “an unknown militant set off an explosive device. As a result of the attack, two employees of the diplomatic mission were killed.”
The international ministry added that “there are also victims among Afghan citizens” with out giving additional particulars.
“One of the employees of the embassy was an Afghan guard and we still do not know the nationality of the second person,” an Afghan safety supply instructed CNN. Another 10 folks have been injured within the blast. Russia’s Investigative Committee stated that two employees killed have been the embassy’s second secretary and a safety guard.
Kabul’s police spokesman stated that explosives went off in a crowd of individuals after an attacker was recognized and shot by Afghan safety forces close to the Russian embassy.
“Today around 11 a.m. local time a suicide bomber, who was planning to blow up his explosives among the crowd of people, was identified and shot by the security forces near the Russian embassy in Police District 7, Kabul. As a result, his explosives went off,” police spokesman Khalid Zadran stated on Twitter.
An ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan claimed credit score for the assault in a press release on Monday.
CNN can not independently confirm the authenticity of this declare.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated extra Taliban forces had been introduced in to safe the embassy within the Afghan capital.
“Two of our comrades have died. A set of measures were immediately taken to strengthen the protection of the outer perimeter,” Lavrov stated throughout a gathering with Tajikistan’s international minister in Moscow. The “intelligence and counterintelligence services of Afghanistan are involved,” he added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the assault as “unacceptable.”
“This was a terrorist attack, they are absolutely unacceptable. We strongly condemn such terrorist acts. Of course, now the main thing is to get information about what happened to our diplomats. As far as I understand, the information will be updated,” Peskov instructed a briefing Monday.
