Suicide bombing, gunfire rock Kabul

January 21, 2013 09:29

AFP: A suicide car-bombing followed by several other explosions and gunfire rocked western Kabul around dawn today, police and witnesses said. A large pall of smoke was rising from the vicinity of a border police complex on the road to the parliament and the road had been sealed off, residents in the area told AFP.

A local police official told AFP the first large explosion was a suicide car bomb and was followed by several other blasts and gunfire. Last week, a squad of suicide bombers attacked the Afghan intelligence agency headquarters in heavily fortified central Kabul, killing at least one guard and wounding dozens of civilians.

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