Earlier this month, a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint at the global airport in Kabul, killing five people. Scores of others were wounded. Three of the dead were foreigners. Najib Danish, a deputy Interior Ministry spokesman, said the attack destroyed more than a dozen civilian vehicles parked in the street and passing by. He did not say what nationalities the dead were.
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DynCorp global did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
At least 10 people were killed and 60 injured when an explosion rocked the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, police said.
However, the Taliban has stepped up its assaults on Afghan security forces since U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops ended their combat mission in the country a year ago. It has also advanced in districts in the north but has struggled to hold ground.
The violence has strained ties with neighbour Pakistan, with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accusing the government there of not doing enough to stop militants planning attacks from training camps he says lie across the border.
The Guardian writes: “The bomb damaged a number of buildings, with the Shinozada private hospital worst hit”.
A powerful explosion jolted a residential neighbourhood in downtown Kabul on Saturday, underlining the precarious security situation in the Afghan capital following a recent wave of devastating bombings.
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