Kabul airport attack: What do we know?

 Kabul airport attack: What do we know?

Two powerful bomb blasts have struck the perimeter of Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport, as civilians continued to seek to escape on flights from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

No less than 90 individuals have been killed and 150 others injured, a senior wellbeing official in Kabul told the BBC. 

The Pentagon affirmed 13 US administration staff were among those killed. 

The bombings came hours after Western governments had cautioned their residents to avoid the air terminal, in light of an inescapable danger of an assault by IS-K, the Afghanistan part of the Islamic State bunch. 

Here is the thing that we think concerning what occurred.

The blasts happened outside airport

The primary blast occurred at about 18:00 neighborhood time (13:30 GMT), near the Baron Hotel, close to the air terminal's border.

The lodging was being utilized by British authorities to deal with Afghans expecting to make a trip to the UK.

It was trailed by gunfire and afterward a second blast near the Abbey Gate, one of the air terminal's principle passageways. 

Reports say the subsequent blast occurred almost a sewage trench where Afghans were standing by to be prepared, near the door, and that a few casualties were blown into the water. 

A US official said that something like one assailant had been wearing an unstable vest.

US and British soldiers had as of late been sent to monitor the region around the Abbey Gate. 

As per one record, one assailant terminated into a horde of individuals, in spite of the fact that reports additionally said Taliban monitors had terminated into the air. 

US residents who had gone to the space around the air terminal had been cautioned before the assault to "leave right away".

Casualty figures

They have been rising the entire day. 

The last number of US and Afghan - including Taliban - setbacks stays unsubstantiated. 

Yet, the Pentagon said that 13 US military faculty had been killed and 15 harmed. A senior wellbeing official in Kabul told the BBC that somewhere around 90 individuals had kicked the bucket, and 150 were harmed. 

Pictures being shared via web-based media show the harmed being removed in work carts. 

Tremendous groups had been gathering nearby, expecting to be acknowledged on to a clearing flight.

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Some countries had already ended their evacuation flights

The assault is probably going to fundamentally confuse the work to carrier a huge number of individuals out of Afghanistan. 

Prior to the assault, various nations including Germany, the Netherlands and Canada, had declared that they could at this point don't direct flights. 

Turkey has declared that its soldiers, who had been giving security at the air terminal to six years, were pulling out.