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Kabul: A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months.
The attack, targeting at a Nato military convoy, killed six American Nato personnel and at least eight Afghans, including two children, in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year.
The Toyota Corolla, laden with explosives, detonated in Kabul's Shah Shaheed district at 8:00am injuring 37 passers-by including children going to school.
Nato's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) declined to identify the nationalities of the personnel killed, in line with coalition policy.
Insurgent group Hezb-i-Islami, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group, which is independent of the Taliban, has previously claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed nine people in Kabul last year, carried out by an 18 year old girl.
Hezb-i-Islami, which is led by former prime minister and mujahideen leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is active mainly in the east of the country.
"Our comrades carried out this attack," Zubair Sediqi, the Hezb-i-Islami spokesman, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. "Ten foreigners were killed and two of their vehicles were destroyed."
All Nato combat missions will finish in Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and foreign troops have already begun to withdraw from the battlefield as the Taliban begin their annual "spring offensive", to push back the coalition in the south.
Thursday's bomb was the first major attack in Kabul since March 9 when a suicide bomber on a bicycle killed nine people outside the defence ministry during a visit by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
It was the deadliest attack since June 2012 when Taliban militants killed 18 people at a lakeside hotel on the edge of the city. |
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