Joy turns to horror as IS bomber kills 63 at Kabul wedding

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The Islamic State group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a wedding in Kabul which Afghan authorities said killed at least 63 people.

IS said one of its fighters blew himself up at a “large gathering” in Kabul while others “detonated a parked explosives-laden vehicle” when security forces arrived, in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app.

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Graphic content / A wounded man receives treatment at the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital after a deadly bomb blast in a wedding hall in Kabul on August 18, 2019. – More than 60 people were killed and scores wounded in an explosion targeting a wedding in the Afghan capital, authorities said on August 18, the deadliest attack in Kabul in recent months. (Photo / AFP)

Joy turns to horror as IS bomber kills 63 at Kabul wedding

Joy and celebration turned into horror and carnage when an Islamic State suicide bomber targeted  the packed Afghan wedding hall, killing at least 63 people in the deadliest attack to…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper