Suicide bomber kills 40 cops in Kabul: Taliban claims responsibility

At least 40 policemen are feared dead after a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a police convoy outside Kabul on Thursday, reported The Independent.

Suicide bomber attacks #Afghan military convoy outside capital #Kabul killing as many as 40 police, say officials | BBC

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Sediq Sediqqi, interior ministry spokesman, told AFP, "There were two explosions that targeted the police cadets vehicles on the outskirts of Kabul city."



Paghman District Governor Haji Mohammad Musa Khan said many more have been injured in the attack, the BBC reported. According to the BBC report, cadets and civilians were returning from a ceremony in Kabul's western outskirts.



Taliban's official spokesman, Abdulqahar Balkhi, claimed responsibility for the attack.

#BREAKING
Martyr attack targets 2 vehicles of police trainers in #Kabul, many killed/wounded

— Abdulqahar Balkhi (@balkhi_a) June 30, 2016

The Taliban have been waging an insurgency against the government since being ousted from power by a US-led coalition in 2001.










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Casualty rates have soared since the departure of foreign combat troops in 2014, but earlier this month US President Barack Obama ordered his military to tackle the resurgent Taliban more directly -- in tandem with Afghan allies, ratcheting up the 15-year conflict he had vowed to end.



The latest attack comes just over a week after a similar attack on a bus carrying Nepalese security guards killed 14 in Kabul, The Independent report said.According to reports the security guards were employed with the Canadian embassy.

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