Briton and two teens killed as suicide car bomber rams convoy in Kabul

A British national and two teenaged Afghanistan nationals were killed when a car bomb exploded near the main airport in Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday morning. The attack, which was claimed by the Taliban, also wounded 18 people. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the British victim was a security contractor. A Taliban suicide bomber appears to have targeted vehicles of the European Union police training mission, officials said. A spokeswoman for EUPOL, Sari Haukka-Konu, confirmed one non-mission member who was travelling in an EUPOL vehicle had been killed.

All mission members who were in the vehicle are in a safe place and their injuries are not believed to be fatal.

Sari Haukka-Konu, spokeswoman for EUPOL

Two teenaged Afghan girls were also killed in the blast. The car bomb was detonated near the office of the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority, which is a few hundred metres from the airport terminal, Sunday morning, said Najib Danish, the deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry. Nearby homes and shops were damaged, and the road – choked with traffic throughout the day as vehicles pass through a slow-moving checkpoint into the airport – was strewn with the charred remains of a number of cars.

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