Civilian Casualties Of Horrifying Kabul’s Truck Bomb Rise As Taliban intensifies attacks

Most victims of Kabul’s truck bomb on early Friday are civilians that sparked sharp reactions of the country’s residents.

Kabul’s inhabitants are said to consider today’s movement by the armed oppositions of the government an unforgivable action and called to stop killing of civilians.

The Unprecedented blast shook the heavily-populated center of Kabul, carving a hole more than 33 feet deep, and destroying buildings and cars.

A huge truck bomb tore through central Kabul early Friday, killed twenty and wounded more than 400 others in the first major attack in the Afghan capital since the announcement of Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s death.

A truck packed with explosives detonated just after midnight near an army base in the neighbourhood of Shah Shaheed but rattled homes across the city, ripping off the facades of buildings and leaving scattered piles of rubble.

The force of the explosion left an enormous crater in the road, around 10 metres (30 feet) deep, and destroyed the boundary wall of the base although no military casualties were reported.

The attack was the biggest truck bombing Kabul has ever experienced and which Some 50 homes were damaged.

The blast comes after the United Nations said Wednesday that a growing number of women and children are getting hurt or killed in Afghanistan’s war against the Taliban and other insurgents.

The total number of casualties in the almost 14-year conflict was up 1 percent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year, a new U.N. report said. However, the number of women casualties rose by 23 percent and children 13 percent.