2 generals among 7 officials sacked over Kabul attack

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday fired seven senior officials, including two generals, over negligence in preventing a recent attack on an army base in the capital Kabul.

Shah Hussain Murtazavi, spokesman for the president, tweeted Ghani ordered the institutions concerned to thoroughly investigate the attack. The orders came during a high-level meeting.

He said the president, after reading an investigation report on the attack, sacked seven senior officials, including two generals. The officials fired would be referred to judicial organs, Murtazavi said.

On January 29, five gunmen stormed the 111the army division in the Qargha area of Kabul, leaving 11 soldiers dead and 16 others wounded. Four of the attackers were also killed and a fifth arrested.

The attack was claimed by the Daesh, or so-called Islamic State (IS), militant group. A day later, Afghan forces discovered a Daesh weapons depot in the Qala-i-Wahid area of Kabul.

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