On Monday afternoon, Wali Salek was resting in his two-storey home in District 11 in Khair Khana, a neighbourhood in north west of Kabul. His daughters were cooking and his two sons were asleep. Suddenly, a loud thud from above jolted the family awake.
“It sounded like a bomb blast,” Salek told Scroll.in over a video call on Tuesday afternoon. The 47-year-old works as a security guard in the main city nearly 9 kms away from his home.
Plaster began to crumble down from the walls and ceiling. Hearing the crash, his neighbours came out of their homes, Salek said. He climbed up to the roof of his house to see what had happened.
He was greeted by a horrific scene, he said: blood splattered across his roof and two bodies, badly damaged. “Their stomachs and their heads had cracked open,” Salek said. “Their brains had come out.”
But where had the bodies dropped from? Salek lives about 8 kms away from the Hamid Karzai International Airport and his neighbours told him…