A US official confirmed the location of the strike as being in Kabul’s Khaje Bughra neighborhood. Sunday’s drone strike on a vehicle is the second by US forces targeting the ISIS-K terror group in the space of three days. A suicide bombing outside the airport gates on Thursday killed 13 US service members and at least 170 others. US forces have been racing to complete their evacuation operation before Tuesday’s deadline and under the threat of a new terror attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Bill Urban, spokesman for US Central Command, said in a statement. “We would be deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent life,” Capt. 'A direct punch in the gut': Inside Biden's biggest crisis as he races to withdraw from Afghanistan President Joe Biden pauses as he listens to a question about the bombing at the Kabul airport on Thursday, August 26. The US military said in their statement on Sunday that “significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material,” and “may have caused additional casualties.” There were two wounded.”Īnother neighbor told CNN that they estimated that there might have been up to 20 people killed in the strike, “not much is left of their house and nothing can be recognized, they are in pieces.”Īnother witness told CNN that after the strike, neighbors and onlookers “removed six dead bodies” and believes that there are “children who are still missing.” “The father of the family and another young boy and there were two children. “All the neighbors tried to help and brought water to put out the fire and I saw that there were five or six people dead,” a neighbor told CNN. Neighbors and witnesses at the scene of the drone strike in Kabul told CNN that several people were killed, including children. We didn’t want to see happen what we believe to be a very real, a very specific and a very imminent threat to the Hamid Karzai International Airport and to our troops operating at the airport as well as civilians around it and in it and that is another thing that we were very concerned about.” “But you know what else we didn’t want to see happen. Nobody wants to see that happen,” he said. But if we have significant – verifiable information that we did take innocent life here, then we will be transparent about that, too. Kirby said the US works hard to avoid civilian casualties. We take these reports extremely seriously.” William Taylor of the Joint Staff told a press briefing Monday: “We are aware of reports of civilians casualties. The 2-year-old girls, Malika and Sumaya, were among the names marked on the coffins.Īt a funeral held later in the day, family members shouted “Death to America.”Īrmy Maj. Relatives of the victims spent Monday at a Kabul hospital identifying remains and separating them into coffins. “We are not ISIS or Daesh and this was a family home – where my brothers lived with their families.” They were “an ordinary family,” a brother of the one of those killed said. A family member told CNN that it was unclear whether Malika had been inside the vehicle or in the compound when the strike hit. Relatives found the remains of one of the girls, Malika, in the rubble near their home on Monday. Pictured, at top from left: Farzad, age 9, Faisal, age 10, Zemaray, age 40, Zamir, age 20īottom, from left: Naseer, age 30, Binyamen, age 3, Armin, age 4, Sumaya, age 2. Several children were among those killed following a US drone strike in Kabul:
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