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Taliban kill 10 in Kabul bombing

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A wounded man is brought by ambulance to the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul on Thursday. Photo: AFP

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KABUL: The Taliban killed at least 10 people in a fresh bombing in Kabul yesterday, yet another horrific attack on the Afghan capital as the US and the insurgents negotiate a deal to see American troops leave the country. The car bomb blast shook Shash Darak, a heavily fortified area adjacent to the Green Zone and home to several important complexes including the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan intelligence service.

Apparent surveillance footage of the attack, which occurred at about 10.10am, showed a grey minivan explode just after it had cut in front of a line of white SUVs waiting to make a right turn right onto a street. One nearby pedestrian can be seen turning and trying to run away as the minivan crashed through a barrier just before the blast. According to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, at least 10 civilians were killed and 42 more wounded.

But Farid Ahmad Karimi, general manager at the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital close to the bomb site, told AFP that both civilians and security personnel were among the dead and wounded. On Twitter, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, saying a “martyrdom seeker” — suicide bomber —had triggered the car bomb and that 12 “foreign invaders” were killed.

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A wounded man is brought by ambulance to the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital following a suicide attack in Kabul on Thursday. Photo: AFP

There was no immediate word from the US-led Nato coalition about whether any foreign forces had been involved. Massoud Zazai, who owns a photo studio across the street from the blast site, said he was in his shop when the explosion happened. “I fell off my chair and it got dark inside the shop because of smoke and dust,” Zazai told AFP. “I went out to the scene moments after the attack, the side of the road was littered with debris and bodies.” Through the smoke, Zazai said he could hear injured people crying and calling for their mothers and brothers.

“I saw at least five very badly injured, one was covered in blood and not moving. It was horrifying.” The attack was also close to where the Islamic State group killed nine journalists in a blast in April last year, including AFP Kabul’s chief photographer Shah Marai. On Monday, at least 16 people were killed in a Taliban attack on a residential area in east Kabul.

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The capital has been gripped by a surge in deadly violence even after the US and the insurgents reached an agreement “in principle” that would see the Pentagon pull thousands of troops from Afghanistan in return for various Taliban security promises. – AFP

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