Suicide bomber strikes foreign convoy in Kabul—police

KABUL – A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of foreign forces travelling through the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, a spokesman for the city’s police told Agence France-Presse.

“I can confirm a suicide attack on Dar-ul-Aman road of Kabul on a convoy of foreign forces,” said a spokesman for Kabul’s police chief, Hashmat Stanikzai, adding that casualties were not yet known.

He said the bomber had detonated his Toyota Sedan car at 11:20 a.m. (0650 GMT) close to the destroyed Dar-ul-Aman palace in the southwest of the city, and the area was now blocked by Afghan and international forces.

A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was aware of an incident but the force could not give further details until further information had been gathered.

Siddiq Siddiqui, an interior ministry spokesman, confirmed the attack but also had no immediate information on casualties.