Hundreds of Afghans made their way Friday through the massacre that left the previous day’s deadly suicide attacks at Kabul airport in a last-ditch effort to flee the country as the U.S. and its allies rush. to complete their last evacuation flights.
The official death toll from the attack, claimed by the Islamic State, was expected to exceed the current figure of 90. Only one hospital, Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital in central Kabul, said it had received the bodies of 145 dead people.
The United States, which lost 13 members of its armed services, promised a retaliatory strike against the local descendants of the Islamic State, known as ISIS-K.
On Friday, the Taliban, who have been controlling checkpoints around the airport, criticized Washington for lax security that said it was paving the way for bombers. The Taliban have been fighting for years against the Islamic State while the two Islamist militant groups have been fighting for supremacy in Afghanistan.
“The incident did not happen in an area controlled by the Islamic Emirate,” as the Taliban refer, said Habib Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission. “This area is controlled by the Americans. We blame the Americans. “