This archive report was first published on 7 August 2019.
On August 7, 2019, a devastating Taliban car bomb exploded in western Kabul, sending a massive plume of smoke over the capital and causing widespread destruction.
According to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, the blast occurred near the entrance of a police station around 9am (0430 GMT).
Health ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar confirmed that at least 95 people, mostly civilians and including women and children, had been taken to hospital.
"I heard a big bang and all the windows of my shop broke with glass flying everywhere," shopkeeper Ahmad Saleh told AFP.
"My head is spinning and still I don't know what has happened but the windows of about 20 shops around one kilometre from the blast site are broken," he added.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which is the latest in a surge of violence across Afghanistan and in Kabul as the US and the Taliban negotiate a peace deal ahead of elections planned for September 28.
More than 1,500 civilians were killed or wounded in the Afghan conflict in July alone, according to the UN, the highest monthly toll so far this year and the worst single month since May 2017.
