An attack in Kabul, one of the safest places in Afghanistan, leaves 103 dead while injuring 235. On Saturday Jan. 27, an ambulance packed with explosives, an act of the Taliban, blew up among crowds.

By pretending to be an ambulance, the bomber was able to pass two police checkpoints by claiming he was taking a patient to a local hospital.  The explosion happened at the second checkpoint. Mohammad Hanif, a shopkeeper, was close by when the bomb went off. Hanif was interviewed for a Guardian article.

“People were running everywhere to escape; there were wounded people lying on the ground, people with wounds to their arms, legs, heads,” Hanif said.

There was chaos everywhere at the scene of the attack, and people were crying after losing or seeing injured loved ones. The people of Afghanistan are furious because they believe the government isn’t taking proper measures in securing safety in the country. They have expressed desire to protest, but are afraid that if they do there will just be another attack in response.

“How are we to live? Where should we go? We have no security,” Hanif said. “We don’t have a proper government. What should we do?”

While this was the deadliest attack in months, just a week before the attack there was another attack on a Kabul hotel, which the Taliban were also responsible for. The following Monday, the government issued the day as a public holiday and Tuesday as a day to pray for victims in the bombing.

“Indiscriminate attacks against civilians are a serious violation of human rights and humanitarian laws, and can never be justified,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a BBC article.

Now citizens of Afghanistan are starting to carry around sheets of paper with their medical information in fear that they could be a victim in one of many attacks. This way, if they are put in a hospital, the hospital will know their blood type and contact information because hospitals sometimes have trouble identifying the victims.

“This is not a piece of paper for myself,” Mujeebullah Dastyar, a local Kabul citizen, said in a USA Today article. “This is my coffin I am carrying in my pocket. No one knows when a blast might happen or a suicide attacker come from behind you.”

Many countries have responded to the attack saying they are with Afghanistan in the attempt to stop terrorists from making other deadly attacks.