By DPA
Berlin/Kabul : Afghan police have arrested a man in connection with the roadside bombing that killed three German police officers near Kabul last week, the online edition of Der Spiegel news magazine reported.
According to the unconfirmed report, the man could be responsible for detonating the explosion that destroyed the protected vehicle the police were travelling in on the eastern outskirts of the Afghan capital on Wednesday.
The man is reported to have been arrested last Thursday, a day after the bombing.
The bomb is reported to resemble the kind of explosive used by terrorists in Iraq.
The police officers were attached to the German embassy in Kabul.
Meanwhile, the Christian aid worker Christina Meier, who was held hostage for almost two days, left Kabul for Germany Tuesday.
“Christina is now in the air and on her way home,” said Matthias Floreck, managing director of relief organization Ora said fromKorbach in Germany.
According to reports the 31-year-old and her husband are on a German military plane.
Ora International, which has been active in Afghanistan since 1991, had suspended its work in Afghanistan, Joop Teeuwen, Ora national director, said.
Meier was abducted in broad daylight on Saturday as she was lunching in a Kabul cafe with her husband.
The four abductors, who were arrested during the dramatic rescue operation to free Meier, are believed to be a criminal gang and not affiliated to the radical-Islamic Taliban.
They had demanded the release of “innocent prisoners” in videotape. However, it was later revealed that they had also demanded ransom of $1 million.