Smoke from an explosion near Kabul Airport WASHINGTON, Feb 4A US investigation found that a single explosive device killed 13 US troops and at least 170 Afghans on the outskirts of Kabul airport and found no casualties from firearms, Central Command chief Kenneth McKenzie said. occurred on August 26 during a mass evacuation of foreigners and vulnerable categories of the local population from Afghanistan with the support of US troops. «The investigation found that a single explosive device claimed the lives of at least 170 Afghan citizens and 13 US military personnel … that someone was injured or killed as a result of the use of firearms — by us or by the Afghans,» Mackenzie said at a briefing. The explosive device, he said, was set off by suicide bombers and stuffed with metal bearings five millimeters in diameter, which could not whether to protect body armor and helmets of military personnel. The U.S. authorities blamed the terrorist group IS* (banned in Russia) for the explosion at the Abbey Gate checkpoint of Kabul's Hamid Karzai Airport. />The Embassy of Afghanistan in Russia seeks to cut costs as much as possibleThe military refuted the version that existed at the beginning about numerous victims from firearms. From the side of the Americans, according to them, there were only warning shots, and the militants did not open fire. «In the initial reports, this was described as a complex attack with shooting and gunshot wounds. We now know that this is not so,» the military said. They explained that the wounds from the metal bearings looked like bullet wounds, and this could mislead the Afghan doctors. «Emergency response services who arrived at Abbey Gate could confuse the causes of the injuries. In addition, the doctors who treated the victims openly described gunshot wounds,” said one of the briefing participants.The Taliban denied allegations of the murder of a hundred employees of the former authoritiesJournalists were shown the only video of the attack — a short video in which, behind the backs of a couple of military men, you can see the figure of a suicide bomber in black emerging from the crowd. The military assumes that he managed to bypass the Taliban cordons ** (the movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities), taking advantage of the general confusion and difficult terrain near the airport. They added that the FBI, which is conducting a parallel investigation, is identifying the terrorist. , captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle camera three minutes after the explosion, captured crowds of Afghans fleeing the scene of the tragedy and the evacuation of their injured comrades by the US military. wp-content/uploads/2022/02/d52d03876cfa16a761468edac7eefb1a.jpg» />The Taliban urged China to promote the recognition of the movement in the world
