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Three killed in baghdad car bomb blast in Kabul

Tariq Hashmi, an Afghan TV commentator in Islamabad, said that at around 2 pm, a police unit had discovered one of the vehicles in which the dead had been collected.

On the roof, the two bombs had exploded, and at least eight police officers, one of them injured, were killed, Hashmi said. According to the Afghan police, at least four civilians were also killed in the blast.

“I only had time to see one of the corpses and I found some of the corpses of Afghan government employees on the roof. There were other bodies and there was smoke all over the place,” Hashmi told the AFP news agency.

Hashmi did not have any details about who was responsible for the blast.

Kabul’s top security official blamed the Taliban and other radical groups for the attack.

The interior ministry has confirmed that one of its own officers was killed in an attack that wounded his colleague.

Prime Minister Haider Haider, however, told the Associated Press television that the army had no reason to believe terrorists were behind the bla우리 카지노 쿠폰st, adding that he had ordered officials to review their security plans.

Earlier on Thursday, officials said the Taliban had ordered the attack after the government decided to remove US special forces from Afghanistan due to their role in counterinsurgency operations.양산출장안마

The Taliban said at the time that they intended to use the attack as a “political attack” by the government against foreign troops in Afghanistan.

Kabul authorities have so far refused to comment on their security plans.

US officials have stressed that they did not plan the attack, with the White House saying Washington had the highest confidence in the Afghan government.

Last year, four US marines – the highest-profile victims of a bomb영천안마 blast in Kabul in more than a decade – and a US Navy sergeant were killed in twin suicide bombing attacks on the US and a convoy of UN vehicles when suicide bombers detonated their vehicles before hijacking an army jeep.

The pair were killed after they entered a UN security centre in the provincial capital.

The US has pledged to expand efforts to train Afghan security forces in counterinsurgency, a policy that US officials say could be used as the basis for an effort to extend US forces into the country beyond the first year of a military-led combat operation.