Flights resume at Kabul airport after explosive discovery

KABUL (Pajhwok): Turkish military explosive experts found an unexploded ordinance buried on the runway at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul on Thursday, NATO Resolute Support mission said.

“During construction at HKIA international airport, a digging crew uncovered unexploded ordinance that appears to have been buried for quite some time. The explosives were uncovered in an unoccupied area far from any active runway.”

Turkish military explosives experts conducted a controlled detonation to render the device safe. Flight operations resumed shortly thereafter.

Earlier, Fahim Kargar, head of office of the Afghan parliament speaker, confirmed the issue and told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Pakistani parliamentary delegation flight to Kabul was among many other flights cancelled due to discovery of some explosives in Kabul Airport today.

He said that the explosives, which remained from the past, were discovered during a construction process in the airport.

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