At least four separate suicide bombing attacks were carried out today in the Afghan capital city of Kabul, killing at least 40 people and wounding hundreds of others, and ending a period of relative calm in the capital district.
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In one attack, a suicide bomber dressed in police uniform targeted police recruits in front of the Kabul Police Academy, killing 25 and injuring 28 more. All of the victims are said to be civilians that also include women and children.
The bomber managed to place himself in a queue as police trainees were waiting to be searched before entering the academy, the official said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which came amid the Taliban’s annual summer offensive.
The bombings were the first in Kabul since Mullah Akhtar Mansour took charge of the Taliban last week, and followed a rare truck bomb attack in an eastern province on Thursday. A truck packed with explosives detonated just after midnight near an army base in the neighbourhood of Shah Shaheed, rattling homes across the city, ripping off the facades of buildings and leaving scattered piles of rubble.
As per Kabul police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi, a truck bomb detonated close to an army compound.
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A Western security source said the target was probably a compound used by Afghan security forces in the area and as many as 15 people were killed in the blast. Also hundreds others had been injured in this blast.
