Afghanistan's only five-star hotel is also a virtual fortress, surrounded by blast barriers, metal detectors, multiple reinforced gates and heavily armed guards.
The hotel and several nearby buildings are now locked in by blast walls and the street in front of the hotel entrance is completely deserted.
He was unharmed by the blast and later interviewed by CNN about his experience.
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Three policemen were among over 30 people who were wounded by the blast, Khan said.
Police defused a second explosive device in the city centre, which was seriously damaged by the blast.
Amputations caused by the blast are often fatal, and first responders likely focused on stopping bleeding as quickly as possible.
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The depression left by the blast at ground zero is barely visible.
About 3, 000 buildings have sustained damage -- mostly broken glass -- as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast, the news agency reported.
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Shrapnel tore through his helmet, and he was forced to become the senior commander on the ground because his top three commanders were felled by the blast.
Hospitals, kindergartens and schools were among the buildings affected by the blast, said Vladimir Stepanov, of the National Center for Emergency Situations at the Russian Interior Ministry.
Around 3, 000 buildings were damaged by the blast, which blew a hole in the walls of a metals factory in Chelyabinsk, approximately 900 miles east of Moscow.
About 3, 000 buildings were damaged -- mostly with broken glass -- as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said.
As Mr Hariri's chief of protocol, he would normally have been in the convoy that was hit by the blast but had taken the day off to take a university exam.
Near a hospital for eye diseases, is an office building for the Ministry of Higher Education, a new modern building surrounded by concrete blast walls and checkpoints, it was thought to be guarded enough.
Seriously wounded by the blast, Specialist Four Sabo nonetheless retained the initiative and then single-handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon, receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire in the process.
"Seriously wounded by the blast, Specialist Four Sabo nonetheless retained the initiative and then single-handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon, receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire in the process, " the citation said.
If an aggressor launches a nuclear device of whatever size and detonates it above the atmosphere and in the line of site of its target country, the x-rays and gamma rays emitted by the blast will cause an electromagnetic pulse, or wave a million times stronger than the strongest radio wave.
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Many of the casualties were caused by the second blast as police and media rushed to the scene.
Opposition leaders reacted to Wednesday's blast by demanding the withdrawal of Italian personnel.
Although wounded by the grenade blast, he continued to charge the enemy's bunker.
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Many of those slain were in a wedding party that was passing by when the blast went off, according to authorities.
But as they sip glasses of sweet cardamom tea, the bucolic bliss is shattered by a large blast in the valley below.
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He said three of his employees were injured by flying glass that killed a young girl who was walking by when the blast hit.
The team, made up of fewer than a dozen people, will help authorities in Baghdad investigate the blast by inspecting and analyzing evidence at the site.
Nash's team-high 10th goal came on a counterattack shortly after Lundqvist made saves on a blast by Ilya Kovalchuk, a backhander by Steve Bernier on the rebound and an in-close rebound by Alexei Ponikarovsky with Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman in the penalty box.
Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a head injury she received from a suicide bomb blast and not by gunfire that preceded the explosion, investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard said Friday.
At Tufts Medical Center, surgeons fixed the smaller of the two bones in her lower left leg that was apparently shattered by shrapnel from the blast.
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