At least 17 people were killed and 25 wounded
when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up
trying to enter a police building in Afghanistan's
capital Kabul, a senior police source has told Al
Jazeera.
The area was sealed off by police as
ambulances rushed to the scene of what
witnesses described as a powerful blast on
Monday.
Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from
Kabul, said the attack happened at about 2pm
local time.
"The suicide bomber blew himself up in front of
a civil order police building in the centre of the
city," she said.
"The attack was five days before another
scheduled round of peace talks in the presence
of Afghan, Pakistan, Chinese and US officials."
Kabul was hit by a series of suicide attacks
last month, including one that killed seven
journalists from a private television station, as
the Taliban stepped up its campaign against
the Western-backed government.
The attacks coincided with renewed efforts to
revive a peace process with the armed group
that stalled last year.
Aljazeera.
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