Pentagon counted only one blast near Kabul Airport

Only one explosion occurred near the international airport of Kabul on August 26. About it reports The Guardian with reference to the Pentagon.

US Army General William Taylor noted that confusion arose with data. According to him, in the USA counted only one explosion near the Baron hotel, perfect by a suicide bomb. “It is not surprising that in confusion with such dynamic events, like this, a distortion of information can occur,” the officer concluded.

In the Pentagon, also stated that the staff of the State Department and the American Consulate continue to check people at the entrance to Kabul Airport. It is noted that the protection of military personnel remains a paramount task for the US Army in conditions of continuing threat.

Previously, representatives of the Taliban’s radical terrorist movement (a terrorist organization prohibited in Russia) reported that several people were detained by Hamid Karzaya airport due to terrorist attacks in the Afghan capital. Prior to this, the “Islamic state” (the terrorist organization forbidden in Russia) called the name of a suicide bomber, which arranged a self-supersion next to the Kabul airport. They turned out to be a fighter Abdul-Rahman Logari.

/Media reports.