Six dead as suicide bomber strikes outside Nato offices in Kabul
- 8th September, 2012
The Ministry of Interior confirmed the fatalities and revealed that five others have been wounded by today's blast, which took place close to Nato headquarters, the US and Italian embassies and the presidential palace.
Investigators were quickly on the scene to study the remains of the blast (Getty)
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid immediately emailed a statement to reporters in which he claimed a 28-year-old militant from the province of Logar, to the south of Kabul, was behind the attack.
However, Kabul's deputy police chief Daud Amin has claimed that eyewitnesses report seeing a teenage boy - of no more than 13 or 14-years-old - walking close to the site with a bag.
The blast comes as Afghans mark the 11th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the former commander of the Northern Alliance, who was killed by an al-Qaeda suicide bomber two days before the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Source http://www.metro.co.uk/news/911229-six-dead-as-suicide-bomber-strikes-outside-nato-offices-in-kabul
The Ministry of Interior confirmed the fatalities and revealed that five others have been wounded by today's blast, which took place close to Nato headquarters, the US and Italian embassies and the presidential palace.
Investigators were quickly on the scene to study the remains of the blast (Getty)
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid immediately emailed a statement to reporters in which he claimed a 28-year-old militant from the province of Logar, to the south of Kabul, was behind the attack.
However, Kabul's deputy police chief Daud Amin has claimed that eyewitnesses report seeing a teenage boy - of no more than 13 or 14-years-old - walking close to the site with a bag.
The blast comes as Afghans mark the 11th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the former commander of the Northern Alliance, who was killed by an al-Qaeda suicide bomber two days before the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Source http://www.metro.co.uk/news/911229-six-dead-as-suicide-bomber-strikes-outside-nato-offices-in-kabul
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