Taliban suicide attack

kills
three near Kabul airport
A suicide bomb attackThe suicide blast damaged
three cars outside the airport
near the entrance of
the
international
airport in the Afghan
The two teenage girls killed
capital Kabul has killed were described by interior
three people, including a
ministry officials as "passersBriton.
by".
The attack took place closeThe powerful bomb sent up a
to the area used by militaryplume of smoke, which
cleared to show a scene of
vehicles and targeted a
European police training carnage, the BBC's David
Loyn in Kabul reports.
mission vehicle.
A person inside the vehicle Rescuers struggled to carry
was killed along with two wounded civilians from the
scene in the confused
Afghan teenage girls. At
aftermath of the bombing,
least 20 others were
and a doctor at a nearby
injured.
hospital dealing with the
The Taliban said it carried wounded was reported to
have found some of his own
out the attack in a
relatives among them.
statement emailed to
media.

A spokesman for the interior

The attack is the second ministry, Najib Danish, told
reporters that one foreign
major incident in Kabul
military vehicle and two
within a week. A Taliban
gun attack on a hotel in thecivilian vehicles were
city on Thursday killed 14 damaged in the attack.
people, most of them
foreigners.

Plume of
smoke

The bombing on Sunday

comes two weeks after the
first exploratory peace talks
between the Taliban and a
group of negotiators
including representatives of
By

At least eight women and

three children were among
the wounded in Sunday's
attack, Kabul police said, in
addition to three members
of the European mission,
known as Eupol.

Yacin Eyemaan
Miah