Kabul: The Taliban staged an attack on Kabul International Airport, which began around 4:30 a.m. Thursday and lasted for nearly five hours before security forces halted the attack, reports said. However the security forces managed to control the situation and end the raid after four hours.
According to Afghan Interior Ministry, the Taliban attack ended as four insurgents were killed by Afghan forces. The attack is over, and the area is cleared from the insurgents. All the insurgents who were holed up in an under-construction building were killed,” the AFP quoted a police officer as saying.
The four militants involved in the attack were killed while one security official was wounded, BBC reported, and cited Mohammad Ayub Salangi, the country’s deputy interior minister, as saying that the area was “completely cleared,” adding that the “last insurgent has just blown himself up. Earlier reports had noted that the insurgents had seized a building under construction at the airport using a car bomb and were armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.
Hence, the Taliban attack seems to be aimed at disrupting the vote audit process that has just saved the country from sinking into another abyss of political uncertainty.
Afghanistan was saved from the grip of political chaos as both the presidential candidates – Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani – agreed to accept the results of vote audit, after weeks of discord over the last months’ presidential election.
The attack also comes just two days after a suicide attack in a market in Paktika province killed dozens. The attacks pose a grave question about the security situation of the country as the US troops prepare to withdraw by the end of the year.
Bureau Report
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