23 dead and 107 injured by attack on Afghan Vice President ELESPECTADOR.COM

The death toll in the suicide bombing near Kabul International Airport a few minutes after the departure of the convoy The Afghan Vice President and former warlord, Abdul Rashid Dostum was up on Monday at 23 and injured at 107 years old.

"The number of deaths (19459011) rose to 23 dead and wounded to 107 including members of the security forces and civilians," Efe told a source from the team of press of the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, who requested anonymity.

he is still trying to count how many victims are civilians and how many security forces.

(See here: The suicide attack in the capital of Afghanistan.)

The jihadist Islamic State (IS) group) claimed responsibility for the attack which, according to him, was perpetrated by an insurgent who blew up the explosives that he was carrying, and stated that the target was the Afghan Vice President and his supporters

Dostum, exiled in Turkey. Last year, while he was under investigation for allegedly torturing his bodyguards against a political rival, he had been received a few minutes before the attack of the international airport by dozens of supporters and local authorities

. in the Afghan media about his possible escape after the Attorney General opened three months before an investigation against nine of his bodyguards Dostum is one of the most powerful Afghan warlords reputed to be bloodthirsty and a history of constant changes during the wars that took place in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion (1979-89) until the fall of the Taliban regime with the US invasion in 2001.

As a member of the Northern Alliance fought with US aid the Taliban resist in the north of the country and, according to some He is responsible for the death by asphyxiation of hundreds of them taken prisoner, during his transfer to a prison in virtually closed containers.