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The attack in Kabul during meeting: 20 people killed, hundreds injured

Теракт в Кабуле во время митинга:  20 человек погибли, сотни раненыхIn the place of gathering of participants of protest movement “Rushnoi” in the center of Kabul on Saturday afternoon, an explosion occurred.

According to the correspondent of the TV channel Tolo, the explosion occurred at the intersection of DEH-Mazang near the Palace Darulaman in the centre of the Afghan capital, where a tent was set up demonstrators. According to eyewitnesses, there were dozens of killed and wounded.

In turn, the correspondent of “Ariana TV reports from the event that almost all the participants left the gathering place, the neighborhood blocked off by police units.

It is reported that at the intersection are still visible more than ten dead bodies.

Machine “ambulance” can’t get to the site of the explosion, as the main road leading to the area blocked by the authorities with containers.

The part wounded, according to eyewitnesses, were taken to the nearest clinic police vehicles.

The protest movement “ROSNO”, which require that the 500 kV transmission line from Turkmenistan to Kabul passed through the territory of the provinces of Wardak and Bamiyan earlier, began on Saturday morning in the centre of Kabul. The government of Afghanistan a month ago, decided on the passage of the transmission line route through the Salang pass and Parwan province.

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