Kabul - A major suicide bomb and gun attack on a government security office in central Kabul on Tuesday killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, police said.
Kabul – A major suicide bomb and gun attack on a government security office in central Kabul on Tuesday killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, police said.
Police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said civilians and members of the Afghan security forces were among the dead and wounded.
The attack began with a suicide car bomb and security forces and militants then exchanged gunfire.
The Taliban said on their website that they had carried out the suicide bombing on “Department 10”, an NDS (National Directorate of Security) unit which is responsible for protecting government ministers and VIPs.
President Ashraf Ghani condemned the assault “in the strongest possible terms” in a statement from the presidential palace, only a few hundred meters away from the scene of the blast in the Afghan capital.
The insurgency led by the Afghan Taliban has gained strength since the withdrawal of most international combat troops at the end of 2014.
With MAP
