Yesterday at around 10:00am, three armed assailants attacked a hospital near Kabul’s PD13, Dasht-e-Barchi.
Clashes began between the armed group and the Afghan forces after the attackers started firing at people in the hospital.
Tareq Arian, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the attack left at least 13 civilians, including two new-born babies killed and 15 others, including women and children wounded.
The deadly assault finally ended with all three attackers killed by the Afghan forces.
Following the attack, the Afghan presidential spokesperson, Sediq Sediqqi, addressing the media, slammed the attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul city and called on the international community to condemn such acts.
The insurgent groups’ continued violence, in particular during Muslims holy month of Ramadan, has left Afghan people highly worried, Mr. Sediqqi added.
Dr. Wahid Majroh, the Afghan deputy health minister, has also condemned yesterday’s deadly attack on a maternity clinic, calling on all parties involved in Afghanistan’s war to halt targeting health centers and workers.
The assault on the maternity hospital in the capital as well as during a mourning ceremony in Nangarhar province sparked condemnation by several national and international figures.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in a televised speech slammed the attack, and ordered the Afghan forces to shift from defensive position to active offensive position.
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the former Chief Executive of the National Unity government in his remarks on Facebook also condemned the attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar, calling them “war crimes” and “against human, ethical and Islamic values”.
Former President Hamid Karzai, in a Twitter thread and also on his Facebook page condemned the recent attacks in Afghanistan in strongest terms and called it “work of foreign conspiracy against people and country.”
He urged the Afghan people to unite to take the “ownership” of the country.
Meanwhile, the EU High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borell Fontelles in a statement slammed the attacks, adding that Tuesday’s attacks in Kabul’s maternity hospital and in a mourning ceremony in the eastern Nangarhar province are considered as “clear violations of International Humanitarian Law.”
U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, in the meantime, in a tweet strongly condemned Tuesday’s deadly assaults in Afghanistan. He said, “The Afghan people deserve a future free from these egregious acts of evil and must come together to build a united front against the menace of terrorism.”
The armed Taliban, however, issued a denial to claim responsibility for the recent heinous attacks in the capital Kabul and Nangarhar provinces.
Zabihullah Mujahed, a spokesman for the armed group, in a recent statement, condemned Tuesday’s attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar provinces and called it the work of ISIS militias in the country.
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