12 killed and over 80 injured in Kabul suicide attack

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Afghanistan's interior ministry said on Thursday that 12 people were killed and 83 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the capital Kabul. The suicide car bombing, took place by the Indian embassy at around 8:30 am.

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Thu, Oct 08, 2009 13:21:21 IST

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Afghanistan News :

A HEAVY explosion rocked Afghanistan's heavily-fortified capital Kabul on Thursday morning (october 8), near the Interior Ministry. Officials and witnesses said the car bomb left 12 persons dead and more than 80 injured including Afghan security forces.

Officials further said ambulances shifted the dead and injured from the scene - near the Indian Embassy to different city hospitals soon after the explosion, which was heard several kilometres away.

The bomber managed to enter the neighbourhood despite stringent security arrangements. The 500-metre road has been barricaded for an year in the wake of a deadly suicide attack on the Indian Embassy.

According to a senior diplomat at the Indian embassy, the target of the attack was the Indian mission but nobody inside the embassy was hurt. The Indian embassy was hit by a bomb in July last year, which killed at least 60 people, an attack blamed on Taliban militants linked to Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

The blast hit shortly after 8:30 am, just as residents were arriving to work. It shattered glass and rattled buildings more than a mile away. A huge brown plume of smoke was visible in the air.

No claim of responsibility so far for the attack but it is assumed it was the handiwork of resurgent Taliban.

Reports say the blast left massive crater in the middle of the road and the wreckage of the car appeared to have been blown 20 metres across the road.

According to a UN official, two of their vehicles were also near the blast and one was damaged. Both vehicles had only a driver inside, and neither was wounded.

Kabul has been hit numerous times in recent months by suicide bombers and roadside bombs, many times since Afghanistan’s August 20, presidential and provincial council elections.

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