A civilian vehicle was apparently used as an improvised platform in the rocket attack aimed at the Kabul airport on Monday.
Video obtained by CNN showed the vehicle in flames on a street in Kabul’s Khair Khana neighborhood after the rockets were fired.
The incinerated remnants of the car are covered with debris, the glass missing from all windows and rubber melted from the tires. The car appears to have been modified with six launch tubes, which are visible inside the car’s charred skeleton.
Zia ud Din, a potato-chip seller whose house was next to where the car was parked, heard the bang of the rockets launching.
“There were a few big bangs, we all were inside the house — the whole family — when we heard the loud bangs, we ran into the garden, everything caught fire,” he said. “Fortunately, no one is killed or injured.”
Eyewitnesses said one of the rockets hit a nearby building. A rocket impact was visible on a nearby high-rise tower. Taliban fighters and eyewitnesses said there were no casualties in the building.
Taliban fighters had initially cordoned off the area, telling bystanders the situation remained dangerous, though they later allowed journalists on the street.
A US official told CNN the rockets were likely launched by ISIS-K, but cautioned it was too early to know for sure.