“Another detonated explosives attached to his body and the third one was shot and killed by security forces”, Zwak said.
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Attacks on foreign forces’ convoys, as well as hotels and residences used by foreigners, have been regular incidents in Kabul.
A Taliban suicide attack targeting a NATO convoy in Afghanistan has killed two people and wounded 26, including two US soldiers.
The attack took place less than a kilometer (half mile) from the United States Embassy.
“It was a suicide vehicle bomber, there are casualties but it is too early to know the extent of the damage”, said Kabul deputy police chief Sayed Gulagha.
At least four people were killed in a suicide auto bomb attack near the diplomatic quarter in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday.
The number of Afghan civilians wounded in the Taliban suicide bombing that targeted a NATO convoy in Kabul has climbed further.
A powerful blast echoed around the Afghan capital as a suicide auto bomber hit a convoy of foreign military vehicles on the main road to the airport, around 500 metres (550 yards) from the United States embassy, wounding at least 17 people.
The military mission said in a statement there were no coalition casualties, but several civilians were wounded in the attack.
Eyewitnesses said the attack happened during early afternoon prayers and people who rushed out of a nearby mosque threw stones at foreign soldiers and jouranlists at the scene.
Omar Zawak, spokesman for the governor of Helmand province, said most of the injured in the Tuesday morning attack were women and children.
The victims comprised three attackers and two civilians.
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The explosion that happened at 1.20 pm. sent a huge plume of black smoke over the city. A military official said Taliban insurgents attacked an army supply convoy on the road from Herat to Badghis, in northwestern Afghanistan, touching off an hourslong firefight that left another six soldiers wounded. She says all NATO personnel and vehicles had been recovered from the blast site.
