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Suicide bombing rocks Kabul hospital.(Al-Jazeera). Afghan defence ministry says lone bomber responsible for attack on military hospital that has left six dead .At least six people have been killed and 23 injured in a suicide bombing at a surgery training session in a military hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul.Read the full story here.
The Taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in an emailed statement that the group had sent two suicide bombers into the hospital and killed many.
The Taliban vowed last month to carry out attacks, including suicide bombings, on foreign and Afghan troops and government officials.A doctor working inside the hospital told Al Jazeera that colleagues and patients rushed away from the direction of the blast and locked themselves in rooms, fearing another bomber would attack.
"It was a big explosion, I fell to the ground," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying. "The police arrived late at the scene, half an hour after the explosion took place."
The hospital is located just a few hundred meters from the United States embassy in what is known as the capital's "Green Zone."
"It's very interesting how the suicide [bomber] managed to get inside," our correspondent said.Anyone wishing to visit family or friends in the hospital, which treats wounded soldiers, is required to go through a security check and obtain special identification cards, our correspondent said.
"It does seem that [the bomber] might have possibly had ... an ID" or might have been wearing a uniform, Turton said.
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