[ToloNews] A Coalition service member died on Wednesday due to wounds he sustained after an bomb hit their vehicle in Kabul earlier in the day, the Resolute Support Mission said in a statement.The statement said that due to NATO
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policy, RS does not disclose further details about the Coalition member.
The Ministry of Defense of Croatia meanwhile said the earth-shattering kaboom targeted Croatian soldiers in Kabul in which three soldiers have been injured of whom one soldier has sustained life-threatening injuries.
"Unfortunately, the attack on Croatian soldiers in Kabul, Afghanistan, occurred early in the morning. According to the latest information, we have three injured soldiers, one of whom has severe head injuries and life-threatening. The other three suffer harder injuries," the Croatian Defense Minister Damir Krstičević said in a statement.
He said the other two soldiers had injuries of their arms and legs and that was easier.
The attack happened in the east of Kabul and according to eyewitnesses, the attacker was a jacket wallah riding a cycle of violence
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Croatian General Kresimir Tuskan said the troops had been working as part of a British-led special operations advisory group.
Afghan interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said the blast had come from a car bomb.
The Taliban, who often exaggerate or misrepresent claims, said one of its "martyrdom" attackers had killed or wounded a "large number" of CIA officers by detonating a car packed with explosives.