Daily Mail: Murdered by suicide bomber as they helped people flee from terror: How American troops were targeted by ISIS-K killer who slipped past Taliban checkpoint and detonated explosives among refugees waiting in sewage-filled ditch
* Two bombings occurred shortly at around 6pm on Thursday at Kabul airport and nearby hotel
* Suicide bomber with a vest bomb slipped past Taliban screening at airport and attacked US troops
* Eleven Marines, one Navy corpsman and another service member were killed in the suicide attack
* Second bomb of an unknown type and size detonated at nearby Baron Hotel around the same time
* It all, at least 60 Afghan civilians were killed in the two bomb attacks
Details have emerged of the ISIS-K attack that killed 13 US troops and scores of Afghan civilians after a suicide bomber slipped past a Taliban checkpoint to get close to an evacuee screening point at the Kabul airport.
For days, a sewage canal at the airport had become a holding pen for Afghans who, knee-deep in effluent, waved passports and signs pleading for Western help in boarding evacuation flights out of Kabul.
But the canal bank leading to Hamid Karzai International Airport became a scene of carnage, when the suicide bomber detonated explosives, killing at least 90 people.
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WNU Editor: Hundreds of people crowded together. Scores of US troops present. The entire world media focused on what is happening at Kabul airport. This was a target served on a platter for every radical jihadist group in the world who wants to make a statement.
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