At least 170 Afghans and 13 US service members died during the attack at Abbey Gate outside Kabul airport back in August. At the time, the UK, the US and other nations were carrying out the evacuations of thousands of citizens.
"The disturbing lethality of this device was confirmed by the 58 US service members who were killed and wounded despite the universal wear of body armour and helmets that did stop ball bearings that impacted them, but could not prevent catastrophic injuries to areas not covered."While outlining the report's findings, military officials showed a number of videos of the chaos at the gate at the time of the bombing.
Three service members who were standing on a short wall looking over the crowd to identify potential evacuees were just 10ft from the blast and were killed.Marines cut holes in the adjacent fence so they could get to triage areas more quickly. Within 20 minutes all of those killed or wounded were moved to a triage site, the investigation's findings stated.Bomber bypassed checkpoints
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