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Roundup: NATO convoy attacked in Kabul, Taliban claims responsibility

Xinhua, June 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least one person has been confirmed dead and 22 others injured as a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car next to a convoy of NATO-led Resolute Support (RS) mission in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, spokesman for Interior Ministry, Sediq Sediqi said.

"Initial report in the aftermath of today's terrorist attack in Kabul says that one killed and 22 others wounded, all the victims are civilians," Sediqi said in his twitter account.

However, eye witnesses at the site of the blast said that the bomber was killed in the blast and at least one foreign soldier sustained injuries.

Earlier, an official on the condition of anonymity told Xinhua that "several civilians were killed and injured after a suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy on the road leading to Kabul international airport at 01:25 p.m. local time (GMT 0855)."

"At least five civilians were killed while two dozen others wounded following the attack as one military vehicle and several civilian cars were destroyed by the powerful blast," the witness Noor Ahmad told Xinhua near the site of the blast which is few hundreds meter away from the U.S. embassy, next to a foreign military base, near to a shopping mall and Afghan Supreme Court.

Meantime, Zabihullah Mujahid who claims to speak for the Taliban outfit in contact with media claimed of responsibility, insisting inflicting casualties on foreign soldiers.

NATO-led Resolute Support (RS) has yet to make comment.

This is the second suicide car bomb in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan in a single day on Tuesday.

In the previous suicide attack which occurred in Taliban former stronghold southern Helmand provincial capital Lashkar Gah at 09: 45 a.m. local time leaving five people including three attackers and two civilians dead and 51 others injured including 49 civilians, according to provincial government spokesman Omar Zawak.

Zawak has also put the deadly attack on the enemies of peace, a termed used by Afghan officials against Taliban militants. Endi