The explosion of a tanker truck in the Salang tunnel in Parwan province of Afghanistan was a pre-planned terrorist act, Hasht e Subh reported on Wednesday.
The newspaper's sources, referring to the report of the Interior Ministry of the provisional government of Afghanistan formed by the radical Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation), claim that the fire in the tunnel was caused by the detonation of several mines, one of which was placed on a fuel tanker. According to the paper's interlocutors, the explosions broke out at different times. They called it a terrorist act. Meanwhile, another source told the newspaper that two explosions occurred on Saturday, and two more - on Sunday.
On Sunday, the Chinese Xinhua news agency, citing a representative of the Public Health Department of Parwan province, reported that 19 people were killed, and 32 others were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity as a result of an explosion of a fuel tanker. Hamidullah Misbah, a spokesman for the provincial public works department, told TOLO News on Sunday that the incident occurred on Saturday, December 18, at about 6:30 p.m. local time (5 p.m. MSK), when the gas tanker overturned and caught fire. The fire was not contained until Sunday morning. According to the latest data, the number of victims of the terrorist attack has risen to 100 and at least 120 people were wounded.
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Based on materials from TASS