Taliban claims responsibility for suicide bombing
on Afghan capital 's Jalalabad Road which has left
five people dead.
A suicide attack on a foreign convoy on Kabul 's
Jalalabad Road has left at least five people dead
and 20 others wounded, according to
Afghanistan' s Health Ministry.
General Ayoub Salangi , Afghanistan' s deputy
interior minister, said the attacker was riding a
motorcycle during Thursday' s attack.
The Taliban claimed responsibilty for the attack,
saying that it had killed many foreigners .
The British embassy in Kabul confirmed to Al
Jazeera that one of their vehicles were hit in the
attack, adding that there were no diplomats in the
vehicle , and that a number of its staff were being
treated for injuries.
The huge blast could be heard across Kabul and a
plume of smoke rose high into the air above the
attack site on the Jalalabad Road, a main route
that houses many foreign compounds and military
facilities.
The bombing is the latest in a wave of attacks to
hit Kabul as the majority of foreign combat troops
withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of the year
after 13 years of war against the Taliban and its
allies.
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