In Afghanistan, a car bomb killed 30 people in front of a student residence

by time news

Time.news – There were many students among the 30 victims and over 60 injured in the explosion of a car bomb in Pul-i-Alam, the capital of the Afghan province of Logar, east of Kabul.

A bloody attack that took place on the eve of the official withdrawal of US troops from the country. The Afghan president Ashraf Ghani accused the Taliban of being responsible for the carnage.

The explosion occurred near a guesthouse: once the residence of the head of the provincial council of Logar, Abdul Wali Wakil, the building was currently used by those who arrived in the district and chose it instead of hotels.

At the moment it housed several high school students, arrived in the city to take the university entrance exam next week.

The building collapsed and many were buried in debris. A truck exploded as it approached the area: the driver, according to Tolo News, had said he was transporting aid for the population by an NGO. A hospital and a private house were also damaged in the attack.

The president of the United States Joe Biden announced in early April that all US troops will leave Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks; a decision that did not please the Taliban who had signed an agreement with the previous president, Donald Trump, agreeing that all troops would leave the country by May 1st.

And as it gets closer the date of the withdrawal of the 2,500 US troops, the level of violence increases. On the other hand, diplomatic attempts to reach a peace agreement have failed miserably; and so the clashes between the Taliban and the security forces are ongoing.

Among other things, just today dozens of Afghans who have worked in recent years as interpreters for the US armed forces had gathered in a neighborhood of Kabul: they are afraid of ending up in the crosshairs of the Taliban as soon as US soldiers leave and ask to Washington not to leave them behind.

“What we are asking is that they take us to the United States. And that’s what they promised us,” he explained Mohamad Shoaib Walizada, an Afghan interpreter who worked for the US military between 2009 and 2013.

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