Earlier this month a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the worldwide airport in Kabul, killing five people.
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No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
The Taliban have staged a series of bombings and other high-profile attacks in Kabul in recent months aimed primarily at Afghan government institutions and global forces.
“A lot of dead bodies and wounded victims were there after the explosion happened in the area”, Mohammad Hussain, who was wounded in the attack, told the AP. “There were a lot of casualties”.
The loud explosion reverberated around Kabul and left a trail of devastation, with an AFP photographer seeing the mangled wreckage of a burning vehicle at the scene of the blast.
The attack came late in the afternoon when convoys often go through downtown Kabul taking foreign and Afghan workers, as well as global military personnel, to their homes or barracks.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and US forces past year ended their combat mission in Afghanistan.
Taliban-led insurgency has gotten momentum since April 24 when the armed group launched its so-called spring offensive in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan.
Kabir Amiri, a spokesman for Kabul’s hospitals, said 11 people, including a foreigner, had been killed and 66 wounded, but he did not include at least two of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation contractors. The suicide bomber was also killed in the attack.
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An worldwide coalition forces spokesman, Col. Brian Tribus, confirmed the attack on a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation convoy, saying three contractors were killed in the attack. Two Afghan women nearby also were killed.
