At one nearby hospital, Associated Press journalists saw at least 20 dead bodies lined up in hallways and rooms, with dozens of wounded people and families of victims pressing through the facility.
Outside the Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital, dozens of people lined up to donate blood, while family members checked casualty posted lists on the walls. Both Arian and Nazari said that at least 50 people were also wounded, and that the casualty toll could rise. The attack occurred just as the fasting day came to an end. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters in a message that only the Islamic State group could be responsible for such a heinous crime.
The Taliban and the Afghan government have traded accusations over a series of targeted killings of civil society workers, journalists and Afghan professionals.
While IS has taken responsibility for some of those killings, many have gone unclaimed. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued a statement condemning the attack, blaming the Taliban even as they denied it. He offered no proof. IS has previously claimed attacks against minority Shiites in the same area, last year claiming two brutal attacks on education facilities that killed 50 people, most of them students.
Even as the IS has been degraded in Afghanistan, according to government and US officials, it has stepped-up its attacks particularly against Shiite Muslims and women workers. Earlier the group took responsibility for the targeted killing of three women media personnel in eastern Afghanistan. The attack comes days after the remaining 2, to 3, American troops officially began leaving the country. The police could not be reached to say whether they had identified any suspects.
In , the Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab killed dozens of people in Kampala in a bomb attack, saying it was punishing Uganda for deploying troops in Somalia. President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday's attack "seems to be a terrorist act".
Videos shared on social media showed frightened diners outside the Digida Pork Joint, lit up by flashing blue police lights. A super-hot fireball was generated, expanding the surrounding air with ferocious power.
A wall of air spread faster than sound. The air behind this wall was a blast. As the blast spread, the air pressure near the hypocenter plummeted from high to low in an instant creating negative pressure.
The air blowing out from the hypocenter reversed direction; wind swept back in toward the center with tremendous force.
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