AFGHANISTAN

charity’s coordinator in Afghanistan, Dejan Panic, said on Twitter.

Outside Emergency hospital, Mohammad Naser, a 44-year-old employee of a nongovernmental organization, said he was watching TV footage of the blast site when he recognized his cousin being taken away in an ambulance.

“I was shocked,” he said. “I rushed to the hospital to see him, but you can see the crowd here at the gate. I could only find his name on a list of the wounded.”

In a statement, U. S. ambassador John R. Bass condemned the attack, calling it a “senseless and cowardly bombing.”

The death toll was the highest in a single attack in Afghanistan since June, when a truck bomb exploded outside the German Embassy in Kabul, killing more than 150 people and injuring more than 400.

Saturday’s casualties were another reminder of how badly Afghanistan is bleeding. Over the past year, about 10,000 of the country’s security forces have been killed and more than 16,000 others wounded, according to a senior Afghan government official. The Taliban losses are believed to be about the same.

And about 10 civilians were killed every day on average over the first nine months of 2017, U.N. data suggest.

Information from The New York Times was included in this story.