Afghanistan: Huge explosion in Shahr-e-Naw area, gunfire heard in Kabul

A huge explosion was heard in Shahr-e-Naw area in downtown Kabul on Wednesday. TOLOnews reported quoting eyewitnesses that gunfire is ongoing close to the Attorney General's Office in the area located in Kabul's PD10. Casualties are feared.

Earlier Today morning heavy explosion disrupted the calm in Kabul, nearly 20 days after a complex attack on a government building in the city which left more than a dozen people dead.

Further details are awaited.

Footage released on social media shows plumes of smoke rising in air after a blast in Shahr-e-Naw area in #Kabul. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/l9HpV74Wv0

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