Latest Updates on Afghanistan 9 August 2019

1- Kabul:
– Due to explosion of a bicycle bomb in Parwan Bustan crossroad, 2 were killed and 7 other wounded.
– At least 95 people including women and children were killed and wounded in a car bomb attack on a police headquarters in police district 6 of Kabul. The explosion caused by the attack was so strong that the building was almost destroyed.
 
2- Herat:
Due to explosion of a VBIED on Eydgah road, 8 people were wounded.
 
3- Paktia:
Taliban captured 8 soldiers on the Patan-Gardiz road and executed 7 of them.
 
4- Sare Pol:
Afghan security forces repelled the Taliban attacks to the ToupKhana and Masjed Sabz villages in Sancharak district. This villages are under Taliban siege for more than four months.
 
5- Afghanistan’s top cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Asif Mohseni passed away due to an illness in Kabul.