Around seven lives have been incurred, with another 400 being injured by a powerful car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul early on Friday morning, health officials have told to the media in their statement.
Police state that the bomb went off in the Shah Shahid area of the city. Injured people including children were rushed to hospital for treatment. Some bodies are feared buried in the wreckage of shops and businesses.
An official security source told Reuters that the target was probably an army compound. There has so far been no claim of responsibility for the explosion, which rocked the centre of the capital. However the Taliban will be the main suspects.
Large truck bombs are unusual in the centre of Kabul are unusual, in part because police do not allow lorries to enter the city during daytime. But smaller bombs and suicide attacks have become almost a weekly occurrence in the heavily fortified city.
On Thursday at least six people, including three policemen, were killed in a suicide bombing in the eastern part of Afghanistan. A lorry filled with explosives was detonated outside a police compound in Puli Alam, capital of Logar province.
The Taliban claimed the bombing, the first major attack since the militants confirmed last week that their leader, Mullah Omar, was dead. On Monday, the Afghani Taliban released a video which they said that it showed members of the group pled and begged.
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