Taliban: Blast causes casualties at gate of Kabul hospital

KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban authoritative says an detonation has gone disconnected successful beforehand of a subject infirmary successful Kabul, causing casualties.

A spokesperson for the Taliban-run Interior Ministry wrote successful a tweet that Tuesday's blast went disconnected astatine 1 of the gates to the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan subject hospital.

The spokesperson said the fig of casualties was not instantly known and that peculiar forces were astatine the scene.

Kabul residents had heard 2 explosions successful the country and besides reported the dependable of gunfire.

The blast is conscionable the latest deadly detonation successful Afghanistan since Taliban forces overtook the U.S.-backed authorities arsenic the American subject began its withdrawal successful August.

Days earlier completing the withdrawal, a suicide bombing by a suspected ISIS violent astatine the gates of Kabul's airdrome killed much than 100 people, including 13 U.S. work members.

Last month, a bombing astatine a Shiite mosque killed astatine slightest 47 radical and near 70 others wounded.