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2 Kazakhstanis injured in Kabul truck bombing

Staff Report

KABUL -- Two Kazakhstanis were injured in the Wednesday (May 31) truck bombing in Kabul, according to the Kazakhstani Foreign Ministry.

The explosion took more than 90 lives.

The two Kazakhstani men "were staying in a hotel 500 metres from the site of the explosion", Foreign Ministry spokesman Anuar Zhainakov said on his Facebook page. "One was injured in the head by glass fragments; the other in the leg [also by glass]."

Both men received treatment and are safe now, he said.

The Kazakhstani embassy's own windows were broken in the explosion, even though it is situated 1.5 to 2km from the site of the blast, added Zhainakov.

Meanwhile, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon Wednesday telegrammed Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani to express his condolences, according to Rahmon's press office.

"We decisively condemn this inhuman and beastly act of terrorists, which they committed in violation ... of Islam," wrote Rahmon.

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