Suicide bomber targets British embassy vehicle in Kabul, 5 dead

A suicide bomber attacked a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing five people, including one Briton.

The Afghan interior ministry said in a statement that the dead included four Afghans and one British citizen when a bomber on a motorcycle attacked on the Jalalabad Road in east of the Afghan capital, destroying three vehicles.

The attack, which wounded 33 other people, comes in the wake of foreign combat troops withdrawing from the region.

The British embassy in the Afghan capital has confirmed that at least one of their vehicles had been attacked and four people had been hurt.

A spokesman for the British embassy said: “A British embassy vehicle was attacked today. There have been some injuries.  We are working with the relevant Afghan authorities.”

The Afghan capital has been hit by a wave of attacks in recent weeks and Thursday’s bombing was at least the fourth since Monday, when two American soldiers were killed in a powerful blast close to the airport.

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