Afghan police beget increased searches of emergency vehicles since recent attack – a deadly delay in an already dangerous city
As Kabul ambulance driver Zemari Khan raced a bleeding patient to hospital on Thursday,he came to one of the city’s latticework of checkpoints. A long line of vehicles had suddenly been waved through, but Khan was ordered to cease, or hand over his ID and open the rear door so a police officer could check whether his patient was real. In the week since the Taliban detonated an explosives-laden ambulance on a busy shopping street,killing 105 people, life has become harder across the Afghan capital – but particularly so for its paramedics.
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Source: guardian.co.uk