Five people were killed and 16 more wounded after a car bomb exploded at an entrance to a Kabul airport on Monday. This bomb blast is part of a series of attacks in Kabul, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A bomber riding a Toyota Corolla in line with other vehicles toward the Afghanistan airport's checkpoint was the one that detonated, resulting in the casualties and injuries. Civilians and security forces were trapped after the attack, said Najib Danish of the Ministry of the Interior, according to NBC News.
"A suicide car bomb attack at the entrance of Hamid Karzai International Airport and has caused casualties both on civilians and security forces," Danish said.
These suicide bombings in Afghanistan's capital and its nearby province are a result of the Afghan Taliban's change of leader after the death of the organization's founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a competition over who will rule the Taliban.
The group has already claimed responsibility for Monday's attacks near the airport declaring that it was targeting "foreign forces." The suggested new leader of the organization, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar, delivered a message through these attacks that there is no way the Taliban will slow down.
A truck bomb exploded on Friday, killing 15 civilians and wounding 400 in Kabul. On the same day, a NATO service member and eight other Afghan security guards were killed in a Special Operations Housing near the airport. Eighteen cadets were killed after another attack at the gate of the Kabul police academy. These attacks have eliminated all hopes of securing peace talks between the terrorists and the Afghan government, Reuters reported.
"These attacks demonstrate an extreme level of atrocity by terrorists against innocent and defenseless civilians," said the Ministry of the Interior of Afghanistan.
In the first half of the year, more than 1,592 civilians have been killed and 3,329 have been injured in Afghanistan.
Video of the blast below:
