Iran Press/ Asia: The explosions took place at the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital in central Kabul.
Interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosty said the explosions took place at the entrance of the 400-bed Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital.
“Security forces are deployed to the area, there is no information about casualties,” he said on Twitter.
Photos from inside the hospital showed the blood-spattered floor of the children's ward after the attack, which has left at least 50 people wounded.
Witnesses said that ISIS terrorists entered the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital, where they went room to room, opened fire, and clashed with Taliban security forces.
The attack was initiated by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle who blew himself up at the hospital entrance. A Taliban official said all assailants had now been killed.
"25 dead bodies and about 50 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in Kabul,' a health ministry official who asked not to be named told AFP.
Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital is located in the former diplomatic zone in central Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan area.
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The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban defeated the previous Western-backed government in August, undermining their claim to have restored security to Afghanistan after decades of war.
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ISIS, which has carried out a series of attacks on mosques and other targets since the Taliban's seizure of Kabul in August, mounted a complex attack on the hospital in 2017, killing more than 30 people.
Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital was previously targeted in 2011 by Taliban suicide bombers and again in 2017 when ISIS gunmen disguised as medical personnel killed 30 people in a six-hour gun battle.
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