Kabul, Jan 5: A suicide bomber today struck a street leading to Kabul’s international airport, officials said, the latest in a wave of attacks on the Afghan capital.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, which comes as Afghan forces battle to end an hours-long siege near the Indian consulate in northern Mazar-i-Sharif city.
“A bomber on foot detonated his suicide vest… near Kabul airport. There is no immediate information on casualties,” interior ministry spokesman said.
He said the target was a foreign forces convoy passing through the area but a police spokesman said he was not aware of that.
The bombing marks the latest assault on the war-scarred Afghan capital.
A Taliban suicide car bomber struck a French restaurant popular with foreigners in Kabul on Friday, killing two people in a New Year’s day attack.
Fifteen others were wounded in the attack on Le Jardin, an Afghan-owned eatery, which caused a piercingly loud explosion and left a building engulfed in flames.
And last Monday, a Taliban bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle near Kabul airport, killing one civilian in an assault targeting a NATO convoy.
