A civilian motor vehicle was apparently employed as an improvised platform in the rocket assault aimed at the Kabul airport on Monday.

Online video acquired by CNN showed the motor vehicle in flames on a street in Kabul’s Khair Khana neighborhood just after the rockets have been fired. 

The incinerated remnants of the auto are coated with particles, the glass lacking from all home windows and rubber melted from the tires. The auto appears to have been modified with 6 start tubes, which are noticeable inside the car’s charred skeleton.

Zia ud Din, a potato-chip seller whose dwelling was future to where the automobile was parked, read the bang of the rockets launching. 

“There have been a several large bangs, we all were inside the household — the full family members — when we read the loud bangs, we ran into the backyard garden, all the things caught hearth,” he reported. “Thankfully, no a person is killed or injured.”

Eyewitnesses mentioned one of the rockets hit a nearby setting up. A rocket affect was obvious on a nearby significant-rise tower. Taliban fighters and eyewitnesses said there were being no casualties in the developing.

Taliban fighters had initially cordoned off the region, telling bystanders the scenario remained perilous, though they later permitted journalists on the road.

A US formal advised CNN the rockets were being possible released by ISIS-K, but cautioned it was too early to know for absolutely sure.