Dostum, who left Afghanistan last year amid allegations of torture and abuse, had left the airport in a motorcade only minutes before the explosion, which officials said appeared to have been caused by a suicide bomber. As many as 10 people were killed and wounded in the blast, said Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish. Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said the blast went off near the main airport entrance, where supporters had been waiting to greet Dostum as his motorcade passed on its way to the city centre. The blast happened right after Dostum’s convoy left the airport,” he said. Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek veteran of decades of Afghanistan’s sometimes bloody politics, was unharmed and greeted cheering supporters at a rally in his office compound.

Source: bd News24 July 22, 2018 13:18 UTC