For at least 170 dead Afghans from the attack at its airport Kabul Many US media outlets, including the New York Times, cite anonymous sources.
In this report not including American soldiers – 13 in number – killed by the blast, nor citizens of other countries, such as three British citizens who lost their lives.
According to the Boston Globe, the number of Afghans killed is 169. The two officials who gave this information asked to remain anonymous because they were not allowed to speak in the media, reports APE BPE.
CNN, for its part, broadcasts that they were killed more of 170 people and the injured exceed 200, based on information from an official from the Afghan Ministry of Public Health.
Pentagon confirms death of 13 US soldiers
It is reminded that the Pentagon confirmed, already yesterday, that 13 American soldiers were killed and 18 were injured in that attack.
“I can confirm that we do not believe there was a second explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, that the suicide bomber was oneSaid the lieutenant general William Taylor, in today’s briefing of the US military administration about the incident.
Taylor added that American soldiers were injured in the attack hospitalized in Germany.
He also warned that “there are specific, reliable threats “against the airport and the Pentagon controls them “almost in real time.”
The US Armed Forces will be able to continue the evacuation «until the last moment“, The representative of the US Department of Defense later assured John Kirby, as the August 31st deadline for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan approaches.
At the airport they are still waiting 5,400 refugees, waiting to be released from the country.
“We are still counting on completing this mission at the end of the month. “And as (the date) approaches you will see some movements for the exit of our soldiers and a part of our equipment (…) but we will be able to airlift the trapped people until the last moment”, he stressed.
Kirby added that part of the military equipment not is about to leave Kabul and will be destroyed.
Regarding the control of the international airport Hamid Karzai After August 31, a Pentagon spokesman said many countries were willing to work with the Taliban to keep it afloat.
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