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Kabul suicide blast kills two
AFP - 1 hour 17 minutes ago
KABUL (AFP) - - A suicide attack apparently targeted at a foreign forces vehicle on a road running past the parliament building in the Afghan capital Sunday killed two civilians, Kabul police said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the suicide bomb, the second in the city in three days, but similar attacks have been claimed by Taliban-led extremists waging an insurgency.
"Two civilians were killed and another three are wounded. It was a suicide attack against a vehicle of foreigners," Kabul criminal branch police chief General Alishah Paktiawal told AFP.
The interior ministry also said the attack, in front of the Habibya High School and about 200 metres (660 feet) from parliament, was targeted at a convoy of international troops.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force did not immediately have information about the attack.
"I saw a red flash, an explosion from a bicycle, as a white Landcruiser with tinted windows was passing by. Inside the vehicle there were foreigners and they were armed," a bystander named Ahmad Farhad told AFP.
"I saw two civilians dead lying on the ground."
It was the second suicide attack in Kabul since Thursday, when a car bomb outside the heavily barricaded US embassy killed four Afghan civilians and wounded nearly 20. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Afghan capital has suffered a rash of attacks this year, fuelling fears that a Taliban-led insurgency which has mostly affected the south and east of the country is encroaching on Kabul.
The biggest suicide attack in the capital was in July outside the Indian embassy, killing about 60 people.
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