Al Jazeera News :
An explosion has killed or wounded at least 10 people near Kabul’s international airport shortly after Afghan Vice President Rashid Dostum returned to the country after more than a year in exile, officials have said.
Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said the blast on Sunday went off near the main airport
entrance, where supporters had been waiting to greet Dostum as his motorcade passed on its way to the city centre.
“The number of casualties may rise. The blast happened right after Dostum’s convoy left the airport,” he said.
Without giving a breakdown, interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish, said civilians including a child and security force members were among the casualties.
But Dostum, who was travelling in an armoured vehicle, was unharmed, said his spokesman Bashir Ahmad Tayanj.
Dostum, who is linked to a catalogue of human rights abuses in Afghanistan, was mobbed like a celebrity as he left the chartered plane from Turkey where he has lived since May 2017.
An explosion has killed or wounded at least 10 people near Kabul’s international airport shortly after Afghan Vice President Rashid Dostum returned to the country after more than a year in exile, officials have said.
Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said the blast on Sunday went off near the main airport
entrance, where supporters had been waiting to greet Dostum as his motorcade passed on its way to the city centre.
“The number of casualties may rise. The blast happened right after Dostum’s convoy left the airport,” he said.
Without giving a breakdown, interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish, said civilians including a child and security force members were among the casualties.
But Dostum, who was travelling in an armoured vehicle, was unharmed, said his spokesman Bashir Ahmad Tayanj.
Dostum, who is linked to a catalogue of human rights abuses in Afghanistan, was mobbed like a celebrity as he left the chartered plane from Turkey where he has lived since May 2017.
