Taliban Suicide Bombing Kills 14 Nepalese Guards in Kabul
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 14 Nepalese security guards in an attack Monday on their minibus in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Interior Ministry and an Afghan security official said.
The
Nepalese were on their way to the Canadian Embassy where they work as
guards, according to another Nepalese guard who was wounded in the
attack.
It
was the latest attack by the Taliban, who have stepped up assaults,
including in the Afghan capital, as part of their summer offensive. The
insurgents frequently target government employees and Afghan security
forces across the country.
Elsewhere
in Afghanistan, a bomb rigged to a motorbike killed eight Afghan
civilians during morning rush hour in a province in the northeast. And
later on Monday in Kabul, a second Taliban bombing killed an Afghan
civilian and wounded five people, including a provincial council member
who was the intended target of that attack, authorities said.
In
the bombing that killed the Nepalese guards, the bomber was on foot
when he struck the minibus, said Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the city’s
police chief. He did not identify the foreign security company the
guards work for.
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