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Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 27 Aug 2021
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Kabul: The death toll in the twin Kabul blasts on Thursday has risen to 110 including 13 US soldiers, according to media reports.
Al Jazeera reported that the two blasts outside the Kabul airport have killed 110 people and 13 of them are US soldiers.
A health official and a Taliban official said the toll of Afghans killed has risen to 72, including 28 Taliban members. This figure was reported by Al Jazeera early Friday.
At least 28 members of the Taliban are among the people killed in explosions overnight outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, a Taliban official told Reuters news agency.
ISIL (ISIS) offshoot in Afghanistan, The Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K), has claimed responsibility for the attack. The terror group said that its suicide bomber its suicide bombers singled out “translators and collaborators with the American army”.
The US troops killed in the attack were stationed at the Kabul airport to help Afghans, desperate to flee Afghanistan, to board evacuation flights.
They are bracing for more deadly attacks from terror groups now active in the country.
US President Joe Biden has vowed retaliation against the terror attacks. “We will hunt you down and make you pay. I will defend our interests in our people with every measure at my command,” he said.