Kabul---Three people including a foreigner working with a European Union police unit were killed when a Taliban car bomber struck a foreign convoy Sunday, the latest attack of Afghanistan's fighting season.
At least 18 people were wounded in the attack, which comes three days after 14 people -- mostly foreigners -- were killed in a Taliban assault on a Kabul guest house that trapped dozens attending a concert.
The suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car against the convoy near Kabul airport during Sunday morning rush hour. The convoy included two vehicles of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL).
"A suicide bomber detonated his Toyota sedan targeting a foreign forces convoy near Kabul airport today at 9:00 am," Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi told AFP.
"The target of the attacker was the foreign forces convoy. So far we have two women dead, 18 others wounded, all of them civilians," he said, adding that three children were among those wounded.
A foreigner working with EUPOL was also killed, a spokesman for the unit told AFP without specifying his nationality.
"All we can say at this moment is that two of EUPOL's vehicles were there at the time of the attack. The one killed inside a vehicle was a foreigner who worked for EUPOL," said Aziz Basam, senior press officer.
Three mission members who were also in the vehicle suffered injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening, EUPOL said in a separate statement.
An AFP photographer at the scene saw troops hauling away the body of a person in military-style uniform, pulled out from the twisted wreck of a badly damaged sedan.
Taliban insurgents, who launched their spring offensive across Afghanistan late last month, claimed responsibility for the attack.
"A suicide attack carried out on foreign forces near the gate of Kabul airport," spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter.
Afghan forces are facing their first fighting season against the Taliban without the full support of US-led foreign combat troops.
Deputy interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said three civilian vehicles, one of them belonging to foreign troops, were damaged at the site of the attack.
AFP
