Taliban claim responsibility for deadly car bomb blast in Kabul - Reports
Moscow, May 31 (Sputnik/UNI) The Taliban radical movement claimed responsibility for the explosion of the bomb-laden car in Kabul that killed at least four civilians earlier on Friday, the TOLOnews broadcaster reported.
The car bomb blast hit the Qala-e-Wazir district of the Afghan capital, leaving four civilians killed and three others injured, according to the Interior Ministry. The attack is believed to have targeted a vehicle convoy of international coalition forces in Afghanistan.
US Forces in Afghanistan has reportedly announced that four of their servicemen sustained injuries in the attack.
The attack comes a day after at least six people were killed and six others were wounded in a suicide attack near the Marshal Fahim National Defense University in Kabul, which was claimed by the Islamic State terror organization (IS, banned in Russia).
Afghanistan has long been suffering from political, social and security instability due to simmering insurgency, including that of the Taliban movement and IS terror group.
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