Death Toll From Taliban Bomb Attack Rises To 39

Sumaira FH Published September 20, 2019 | 07:30 PM

The death toll from a massive Taliban bomb attack which flattened a hospital in southern Afghanistan earlier this week has risen to at least 39, officials said Friday

Kabul, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Sep, 2019 ) :The death toll from a massive Taliban bomb attack which flattened a hospital in southern Afghanistan earlier this week has risen to at least 39, officials said Friday.

The jump in the toll from the blast, which took place in the town of Qalat in Zabul province on Thursday, takes the total number of people killed in just three days of violence across the war-torn country this week to at least 91.

"The toll from the hospital attack in Qalat has jumped to 39 killed, 140 others wounded," Gul islam Seyal, the spokesman for the provincialgovernor, told AFP.

Earlier, authorities had said the blast had killed 20 people.