(Kabur Comprehensive News) A suicide explosion attack occurred on Wednesday (January 11) near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, causing five people to die and more than 40 people injured.A Chinese delegation originally scheduled to go to the building on the day, but Afghanistan officially said that no foreigner appeared in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time of the incident.
Comprehensive AFP and Reuters reported that the Islamic branch "Islamic State -Horosan" of the extreme organization claims to be responsible for the incident.The Islamic State and the Taliban government in Afghanistan are hostile.
A spokesman for Police, a policeman in the capital of Afghanistan, announced that the incident caused five people to die, but an official of the Afghan Ministry of News said that 20 people were killed and said that the person who had planned to enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but did not succeed.A surgical center operated by Italian non -governmental organization said they received more than 40 wounded after the incident.
It is reported that at the time of the incident, it was a busy time, and the incident was in a rigorous area. In addition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, important institutions nearby include the embassies of various countries such as Turkey and China.
Afghanistan's deputy minister of the Ministry of News and Culture, Farah, said that there was a Chinese delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the same day. "We don't know if they were present when the explosion occurred."However, Mattach, a senior official of the Afghan Prime Minister's office, said in an interview that no foreigners appeared in the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time of the incident, indirectly indicating that no Chinese citizen was injured in the attack.
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on Thursday (12th) that China has resolutely opposed all violent terrorist attacks and strongly condemned the incident.He also said that according to the current understanding, no Chinese citizens were casualties in the incident."I hope that the Afghanistan will take resolute and powerful measures to effectively protect the safety of people and institutions in all countries at all countries at all countries." A hotel in Kabul also had an attack last month, causing five Chinese citizens to be injured.