Why is bomber in hospital

Science Technology Business U. Pakistani hospital hit by female suicide bomber, 9 killed. Pakistani security officials and rescue workers gather at the site of a bombing on an entrance of a hospital in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Sunday, July 21, Police in Pakistan say gunmen opened fire on a police post and then bombed the entrance to a hospital as the wounded were being brought in.

Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The Associated Press. Photographs shared by residents showed a plume of smoke after the blasts in the former diplomatic zone in the Wazir Akbar Khan area in central Kabul. A health worker at the hospital, who managed to escape the site, said he heard a large explosion followed by a couple of minutes of gunfire.

About 10 minutes later, there was a second, larger explosion, he said. Zabihullah Mujahid, Deputy Minister of Information and Culture in the Taliban government said Taliban special forces killed five of the attackers. A Taliban military commander in Kabul was among the fighters killed when his men responded to the attack, officials said Wednesday. Hamdullah Mokhlis, a member of the hardline Haqqani network and an officer in the Badri Corps special forces, is the most senior figure to have been killed since the Taliban seized the capital.

IS have claimed four mass casualty attacks since the Taliban takeover on August 15, including suicide bomb blasts targeting Shiite Muslim mosques. The group regards Shiite Muslims as heretics. In the attack on the military hospital, militants went room to room killing people, switching to knives when they ran out of ammunition.

An Italian organization that runs a separate hospital in the capital tweeted on Tuesday that it has received nine patients with injuries from the blast site. Pictures shared on social media showed black smoke billowing into the air after the explosions, the first of which went off at around pm GMT.

AFP journalists saw Taliban fighters racing to the scene in at two armored personnel carriers APCs and pick-up trucks. In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme.