'Many dead': Wounded survivor escaped Kabul clinic strike

Kabul: Azmat Ali Momand had just finished his rounds, checking patients at the Camp Omid drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, wh...

Kabul: Azmat Ali Momand had just finished his rounds, checking patients at the "Camp Omid" drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, when the explosion erupted.

"The room collapsed on me," the 30-year-old doctor, who has worked at the centre for two years, told AFP on Tuesday. "I got two stitches on my head and my leg was also injured."

Momand was knocked out by the blast but after coming to, he went to the emergency ward where others wounded in the strike were arriving.

"I gave them first aid. They were severely injured and then transferred them to the relevant hospitals," he added.

"There are many dead, but we don't know how many," he said at the scene of the blast, which left the building in ruins, blackened and still smouldering in the daylight.