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NATO soldiers at the scene of the attack on the Green Village complex in Kabul on September 2, 2019. REUTERS / Omar Sobhani

Six days after the truck bomb attack on the Green Village fortified residential complex that left 16 dead and more than a hundred wounded in Kabul, anger has gripped residents of the neighborhood still in shock.

With our correspondent in Kabul, Sonia Ghezali

The Fahim tire shop is located right in front of the entrance to the vast Green Village complex where expatriate expatriates or missionaries reside in the country as well as NGO employees. He was blown away by the explosion of the truck bomb on Monday.

" I'm angry, of course. My store is destroyed, my house is very damaged. At the beginning of the year there has already been an explosion here. I had to borrow money that I still can not repay, he laments. And this new explosion, with the winter coming. What am I going to do ? "

Gulolai lives in an alley next door. The teacher is father of three children. Her three toddlers show the pieces of walls and ceiling and the windows of her house torn off. His daughter Zinad is 5 years old, she spreads her hair and shows the crust of blood on her head. " I'm hurt here, " the girl says.

All are safe and sound, but Gulolai is out of him. " I went to protest on Tuesday. Since the beginning, I am against this secure complex, I will always be against. Since they have settled here, there are always explosions. Since they came to Afghanistan there have been suicide bombers and bombings. If I had the power, I will get them out of Afghanistan . "

In the next lane, other neighbors jostle to show their wounds and talk about the damage in their homes. Foreigners are well protected in their secure homes, some say. The population of the neighborhood lives very modestly, often in simple earthen houses.