By Xinhua,
Kabul : At least three civilians were killed in a suicide car bombing apparently targeting a convoy of international troops Thursday in Afghan capital city Kabul, the NATO-led military said.
Press office of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told Xinhua that seven Afghans were also wounded in the morning blast, which caused no casualties on the targeted troops.
An official at the ISAF press office said the target was a two-vehicle convoy of foreign troops, but it is unknown yet the convoy belongs to ISAF or the U.S.-led Coalition force.
Alishah Paktiawal, deputy police chief in Kabul, confirmed three civilians were killed.
A Xinhua reporter on the scene saw two bullet-proof vehicles of the convoy were damaged. Security personnel cordoned off the site.
Zabihullah Mujahed, a purported spokesman for the Taliban claimed from an unknown location that his outfit took responsibility for the bombing, saying a Taliban loyalist exploded his explosives-laden pick-up near a foreign troops’ convoy in Kabul.
Mujahed claimed the blast damaged two military vehicles and killed several soldiers.
The past two days have seen several bombing attacks across Afghanistan, where escalating insurgency claimed 8,000 lives in 2007, a record high since 2001.
The Taliban militants, who went into insurgency after being ousted from power in a U.S.-led military invasion in 2001, have vowed to intensify bombing attacks.