“Our comrades carried out this attack,” Zubair Sediqi, the Hezb-i-Islami spokesman, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. “Ten foreigners were killed and two of their vehicles were destroyed.”
All Nato combat missions will finish in Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and foreign troops have already begun to withdraw from the battlefield as the Taliban begin their annual “spring offensive”, to push back the coalition in the south.
Thursday’s bomb was the first major attack in Kabul since March 9 when a suicide bomber on a bicycle killed nine people outside the defence ministry during a visit by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
It was the deadliest attack since June 2012 when Taliban militants killed 18 people at a lakeside hotel on the edge of the city.
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