Ten killed, dozen wounded in blast outside Kabul military airport

New Delhi: On the first day of 2023, at least 10 people were killed and around a dozen injured in an explosion outside the military airport in Kabul, local media reported quoting sources within the Islamic Emirate.

A blast took place on Sunday morning near the gate of the military airport in Kabul, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said.

MoI spokesman Abdul Nafay Takoor said that the blast inflicted casualties, leaving several people dead and wounded. But he did not provide the exact number of casualties.

“Today morning an explosion took place outside Kabul military airport, due to which a number of our citizens were martyred and injured,” spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor told Reuters news agency,

No one has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

Security officials have not commented on the number of casualties so far.

The Kabul blast is the first in 2023 in Afghanistan.

Residents said a loud explosion was heard in the late morning in the vicinity of the military side of the airport in Kabul.

They said the area had been sealed off by security forces, and all roads had been closed.

Last month, three Chinese nationals were wounded when Islamic State or ISIS-K ISIL militants entered the hotel. All three militants were killed.

There have been dozens of blasts and suicide militant attacks in Kabul since April 2022 where hundreds of civilians and security force persons were killed.