4:3 Reax to deadly clinic bombing, injured from Friday attack

• published: 30 Jul 2015
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Kunduz City, Kunduz province 1. Wide exterior of Kunduz City hospital 2. Close-up of sign reading (English and Dari) "Emergency Section" 3. Wide shot hospital corridor 4. Various of victims wounded in bicycle attack lying on beds in hospital ward 5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Gul Alam, Wounded victim: "I heard an explosion. We were two friends and we both fell down. I got back on my feet and started walking and then I realised that I was wounded in my leg. I called my friend but he didn't answer and I got very upset and then Shafi Jan (Alam's friend) took my arm and evacuated me from the site." 6. Various of wounded lying on beds in hospital ward 7. Wide of hospital corridor Kabul 8. Wide exterior shot of Afghan Health ministry building 9. Various set-up shots of Doctor Abdullah Fahim, adviser to Afghan health minister 10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Doctor Abdullah Fahim, Adviser to Afghan health minister: "According to our reports, a sports utility vehicle packed with explosives blew up in the health clinic in Akbar Khail village in the Azra district of Logar province and, as a result of the explosion, the building of the clinic was completely destroyed. As there were a lot of patients, including women and children, it caused a big number of casualties." 11. Cutaway of paper in adviser's hands 12. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Doctor Abdullah Fahim, Adviser to Afghan health minister: "Right now, the reports are not yet fully confirmed, but we are getting reports of 13 to 25 people killed and around 50 people wounded in the incident." 13. Mid of Fahim in his office STORYLINE: A suicide blast caused by a bicycle rigged with explosives ripped through a bazaar in the Khanabad district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people, including a police officer. According to an Afghan Interior Ministry statement, at least 24 people were wounded in Friday's attack - some of whom were taken to Kunduz City hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, Afghan authorities said a suicide attacker blew up a sport utility vehicle packed with explosives outside a small medical clinic in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 25 people. Some reports put the death toll as high as 60. The widely varying estimates of the number of killed and wounded in the bombing reflect the chaos that frequently follows such an attack. The attack happened in the mountainous Azra district of Logar province, some 25 miles (40 kilometres) east of Kabul. The Afghan Health Ministry initially said in a statement that some 60 people were killed and 120 wounded. But at a news conference later in Kabul, ministry official Abdullah Fahim told reporters those figures were wrong, and said new information put the toll at between 13 and 25 killed and 50 wounded. A spokesman for the provincial governor said 25 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in the blast. The different tolls could not be immediately reconciled. According to the provincial health director, the bomber drove up to the medical clinic in the vehicle, and clinic guards tried to prevent him from entering the centre's compound. The force of the blast caused the building housing the 10-bed clinic to collapse, trapping at least 15 people underneath the rubble. People were frantically scouring the rubble in search of bodies and survivors, he said. The provincial health director said the clinic had recently been expanded to meet the health needs of the far-flung district's population. He also said an emergency response team of nurses, doctors and other provincial officials was to fly by helicopter to the area to help search for survivors in the rubble of the remote clinic. The Taliban denied responsibility for the bombing. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e1195a4dd14f919ba56551fa35cf03df Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork