Pictures: Daesh suicide bombers kill scores at Kabul airport

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A person wounded in a bomb blast outside the Kabul airport arrives at a hospital. Twin suicide bombs ripped through crowds outside Kabul airport on Thursday, killing scores of people including 13 US troops and deepening panic in the final days of an already frenzied evacuation effort from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Image Credit: NYT

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The bombings, claimed by the Daesh group, left scenes of carnage outside the airport where thousands of Afghans desperate to flee their country had massed despite a flurry of foreign government warnings - made just hours before - that a major terror attack was imminent. Image Credit: NYT

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The suicide bombers targeted people trying to reach access gates at the airport, creating scenes of terror and devastation. Image Credit: NYT

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Footage shared on social media showed men and women in a tangled mess in the shin-deep water of a drainage canal. Stunned survivors pulled themselves to their feet, while others desperately shouted for help in searching the carnage for loved ones. Image Credit: NYT

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The Italian NGO Emergency said the hospital it operates in Kabul had been overwhelmed by a "massive influx" of more than 60 casualties, 16 of whom were pronounced dead on arrival. Image Credit: NYT

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The injured "could not speak, many were terrified, their eyes totally lost in emptiness, their gaze blank", the hospital's medical coordinator Alberto Zanin said in a post on the group's Twitter account. Image Credit: NYT

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The deaths of the 13 American troops were the worst single-day death toll for the US military in Afghanistan since 2011. Image Credit: NYT

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The US government and its allies had raised the alarm earlier in the day with a series of advisories warning their citizens to avoid the airport. Image Credit: NYT

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A person with blood stained clothing outside a hospital in Kabul. Image Credit: NYT

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A person wounded in a bomb blast outside the Kabul airport arrives at a hospital. Image Credit: NYT

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The scene outside a hospital in Kabul, following a bomb blast. Image Credit: NYT

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A person wounded in a bomb blast outside the Kabul airport arrives at a hospital. Image Credit: NYT

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A person wounded in a bomb blast outside the Kabul airport arrives at a hospital. Image Credit: NYT

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People carrying an injured person to a hospital after an attack at Kabul airport. Image Credit: via REUTERS

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People outside a hospital after an attack at Kabul airport. Image Credit: REUTERS

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