Kabul blasts: 12 photos that show scale of devastation and tragedy

Over 100 people were killed in two suicide bombings reported near the Kabul airport on Thursday. In Pic: In pic, smoke rises from an explosion outside the airport in Kabul.(AP)

Suicide bombers struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport with explosions, causing a bloodbath among desperate civilians hoping to flee and casting the final days of the Western airlift of its allies into chaos. In Pic: A wounded man being placed in an ambulance down the road from a blast outside the Kabul airport. (The New York Times)

The Afghan offshoot of the terror organization “Islamic State,” known as ISIS-Khorasan, IS-K or ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attacks.In Pic: An ambulance rushes to the site of an explosion near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 26, 2021. (The New York Times)

Afghan officials warned that the true toll could be higher, with morgues stretched to capacity and the possibility that relatives are taking bodies away from the scene. In Pic: A bloodied shield stands outside the entrance of a hospital in Kabul. (The New York Times)

A person wounded in a bomb blast outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, arrives at a hospital in Kabul. (The New York Times)

Afghans lie on beds at a hospital after they were wounded in the deadly attacks outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

Wounded Afghan men receive treatment at a hospital after yesterday's explosions outside airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 27, 2021. (Reuters)

Afghans carry the dead body of an Afghan at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, a day after deadly attacks outside the airport. (AP)

A person wounded in a bomb blast outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, arrives at a hospital in Kabul. (The New York Times)

The scene outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan following the bomb blast outside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. (The New York Times)

Afghans carry the dead body of an Afghan at a hospital after deadly attacks outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. (AP)

People wait outside Hamid Karzai International Airport as a military transport plane takes off behind them in Kabul, Afghanistan. (The New York Times)