Suicide car bomber kills at least three after ramming foreign convoy in Kabul

A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 18 in an attack that appears to have targeted vehicles of the European Union police training mission, officials said. A spokeswoman for EUPOL, Sari Haukka-Konu, said one non-mission member who was travelling in an EUPOL vehicle had been killed. She had no details on the nationality or identity of the deceased.

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

EUPOL’s website said three of its personnel had sustained non-fatal injuries.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. Danish said that one foreign vehicle and two civilian vehicles were damaged in the blast.

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