Grenade Thrown at UN Vehicle in Kabul, One Killed

Date: 24 November 2019 - 21:41

News ID: ۷۳۱۰۹

KABUL (Dispatches) – A grenade was thrown at a vehicle belonging to United Nations in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing a foreign national and wounding five others, a government spokesman said.
Nasrat Rahimi, the interior ministry spokesman, did not give the nationality of the deceased.
Five Afghans, including two United Nations local staff, were slightly wounded in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility.
The attack took place after a week’s lull in the heavily fortified capital following a series of bomb attacks in recent months.
On Wednesday, a U.S. heavy-lift Boeing Chinook helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province leaving at least two American soldiers dead.
U.S. Forces-Afghanistan confirmed in a statement that the service members were killed in a helicopter crash.
"The cause of the crash is under investigation, however, preliminary reports do not indicate it was caused by enemy fire,” the statement said.
More than 14,000 active U.S. troops are reportedly based in Afghanistan. More than 2,200 U.S. troops have been killed in the country since the invasion in 2001.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his frustration with their continued deployment. U.S. forces have remained bogged down there through the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and now Trump.
The U.S. has, in the past, tried to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban militant group over the withdrawal of the American troops from Afghanistan.