Taliban claims responsibility for a car bomb attack on a police station in Kabul which wounded at least 34. There's no confirmaton on the number of fatalities
Scores of people were wounded when a Taliban car bomb detonated in Kabul on Wednesday, sending a massive plume of smoke over the capital and shattering windows far from the blast site.
Health ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar said at least 95 people, mostly civilians and including women and children, had been taken to hospital. "My head is spinning and still I don't know what has happened but the windows of about 20 shops around one kilometre from the blast site are broken."According to footage on social media and witnesses, small-arms fire could be heard following the blast.
More than 1,500 civilians were killed or wounded in the Afghan conflict in July alone, according to the UN, the highest monthly toll so far this year and the worst single month since May 2017.
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