The attack followed a twin bombing earlier in the day in which 35 people were killed.
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Another major attack was launched near an worldwide organization late on Monday night after the group detonated a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device, triggering a gun battle that lasted for 11 hours.
“Police special forces immediately reached the site of the attack and started rescuing people from the building”, the interior ministry statement said in a statement.
Afghan security personnel and residents walk at the site of a auto bomb blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Shar-e-Naw in Kabul.
A terrorist attack at American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Aug.24 had killed 13 people and similar attack against peaceful demonstrators in Kabul on July 23 claimed almost the lives of 80 people.
The blasts victims also included high-level officials, including an army general, as the Taliban ramp up their nationwide offensive against the US-backed government.
Health Ministry spokesman Waheed Majroh said the casualties from the double bombing could rise still further as some of the injured were battling for their lives in hospital.
Deputy Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said the second bombing was caused by a suicide attacker who struck the area of the first blast after security forces had gathered there.
High-level defence officials were among those killed, including a young military officer.
“She lost two other sons before him”.
There were so many disfigured bodies that some had to be taken to hospitals in vehicle boots and the back of police trucks.
Firemen raced to retrieve some bodies thrown into the Kabul River by the intensity of the first blast on the bridge.
Two weeks ago, fighters attacked the American University in Kabul, killing 13 people.
The uptick in violence in the capital comes as the Taliban escalate nationwide attacks, underscoring the worsening security situation and the heavy price paid by civilians since North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces ended their combat mission at the end of 2014.
Outside Kabul, the fighters have stepped up their military campaign, threatening Lashkar Gah, capital of the strategic southern province of Helmand, as well as Kunduz, the northern city they briefly took past year.
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The Taliban have also recently closed in on Kunduz – the northern city they briefly seized past year in their biggest military victory since the 2001 USA invasion – leaving Afghan forces stretched on multiple fronts.
