Posted on 07/06/2008 10:48:57 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
KABUL: A suicide car bomb exploded near the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Monday morning, killing seven people, officials said.
Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the spokesman for the defence ministry, said five people were killed at the site of the suicide car bombing.
Sayed Qabir, the chief of a Kabul hospital, said his staff had treated eight people wounded in the blast, but that two had died.
The bomb went off near the Indian embassy, which sits across the street from Afghanistan's interior ministry on a tree-lined street in central Kabul.
While Afghanistan has seen increasing violence in recent months, Kabul has been largely spared from random bomb attacks that Taliban militants use in their fight against Afghan and international troops.
In September 2006, a suicide bomber near the gates of the interior ministry killed 12 people and wounded 42 others. After that blast, additional guards and barriers were posted on the tree-lined street.
Green on green.
28 Dead, 141 Wounded. Mostly members of the public lined up to seek visas. No embassy staffers hurt.
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