The Pentagon has said that despite previous reports, it now believes there was only one suicide bomber in Thursday's Kabul airport attack, with no explosion near the Baron Hotel.
While previous reports said that there were likely two suicide bombers behind the attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport — one near one of the airport’s gates and another near the Baron Hotel — Army Major General William Taylor told reporters on Friday at a Pentagon press briefing the second explosion at the hotel did not happen.
"I can confirm for you that we do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, that it was one suicide bomber," he said.
Confusion over the events at the Kabul airport stemmed from conflicting media reports, compounded when Department of Defense Press Secretary John Kirby tweeted on Thursday to "confirm" that "at least" one other explosion went off at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from the Abbey Gate.
NEW: Multi-trillion $-funded Pentagon appears to admit it doesn't even KNOW how many explosions there were near Kabul airport, Afghanistan.
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Initial US briefings were "provided incorrectly" -Major General William Taylor (& parroted by NATO-nation media)#cia #usintelligence pic.twitter.com/CAX3btnW5h
"We're not sure how that report was provided incorrectly," General Taylor said on Friday.
Thursday's attack left 13 US service members dead, and more than a dozen others wounded, the military official confirmed. The blast also killed at least 90 Afghans and wounded many others. Injured troops have been flown to the US's Ramstein Air Base in Germany for treatment, Taylor said.
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