Six people were killed and more than 30 wounded in a suicide bombing in Kabul on Wednesday that struck close to the presidential palace in the heart of the Afghan capital, the Interior Ministry said.
The suicide bomber had been traveling in a vehicle packed with explosives and it was not immediately clear what the target of the attack had been.
“It was a suicide attack and I saw someone lose a limb and another person lose a hand,” said Mohammad Tahir, a driver, whose hands were covered in blood as he fled the area.
The blast interrupted a period of relative peace in the city, after a bomb targeted an influential provincial police chief visiting Kabul from Uruzgan province last week.
Read more…
Source: Reuters