NATO: Coalition convoy targeted in suicide attack in Kabul; casualties expected

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed vehicle targeted a NATO military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, police and a NATO official said.


Police on the scene said casualties were expected. "It was a suicide car bomber, there are casualties but it is too early to know the extent of the damage," said Kabul deputy police chief Sayed Gulagha.


A spokesman for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, US Army Col. Brian Tribus, said that a coalition convoy had been attacked.


"We can confirm there was an attack on coalition forces. We are gathering information," he said.


The explosion happened at 1.20 p.m. on the main airport road in eastern Kabul. The blast sent a huge plume of black smoke over the city.


It happened as government employees were leaving their offices and roads were choked with vehicles as the working day is shortened during the Ramadan fasting month.


It comes a week after an audacious attack on the nation's parliament, which highlighted the ability of insurgents, who have been fighting to overthrow the Kabul government for almost 14 years, to enter the highly fortified capital to stage deadly attacks.


Also on Tuesday, a suicide attack on the police headquarters of southern Helmand province killed up to three people and wounded more than 50, including policemen, officials said.


Omar Zawak, spokesman for the governor of Helmand province, said most of the injured in the Tuesday morning attack were women and children.


Police spokesman Farid Hamad Obaid said a car packed with explosives was driven into the back wall of the police headquarters in an attempt to breach a gate. All the gunmen fled the area, he said.


Also Tuesday in eastern Paktya province, three people were killed and one wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside mine, the provincial police chief Zalmai Oryakhel said.


NATO: Coalition convoy targeted in suicide attack in Kabul - StarTribune.com

 

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Afghanistan security personnel inspect a destroyed vehicle at the site of a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

U.S. soldiers attend to a wounded soldier at the site of a blast in Kabul on Tuesday. A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops serving with NATO on the main road running between Kabul's airport and the U.S. Embassy, police and security officials said.

The attack took place less than a kilometre from the U.S. Embassy.
One person was killed and at least 19 people were wounded in a suicide bomb attack on NATO troops as their truck convoy passed down the main road running between Kabul's airport and the U.S. Embassy, police and health ministry officials said.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing. The claim came in a text message sent to The Associated Press.

Interior Ministry spokesman Seddiq Sediqqi says one civilian was killed in the attack, which also wounded 19 people.

The attack took place less than a kilometre from the U.S. Embassy.

It comes as insurgents intensify their spring offensive, which was launched in April.

The force of the blast rattled windows in the capital’s heavily guarded diplomatic enclave and sent a huge column of grey smoke skywards.

Most NATO troops left Afghanistan last year when the combat mission ended and only a small contingent remains to train Afghan security forces. Some U.S. troops are still engaged in fighting the Taliban insurgency.

It was the second major attack in Kabul since the start of Ramadan. The Taliban had rejected a request for a ceasefire during the Muslim fasting month, and the militants' summer offensive has continued unabated despite exploratory talks earlier this year between Afghan and Taliban officials in Qatar.

Last week, militants mounted an assault on the parliament as lawmakers prepared to vote on a new Defence Minister.

Insurgents also carried out a suicide attack the police headquarters in Helmand killing two people and wounding more than 50, according to officials in the southern province.

"The first bomber in a car detonated his explosives near the police headquarters to pave the way for two others to enter," Omar Zwak, a spokesman for Helmand's Governor, said.

"Another detonated explosives attached to his body and the third one was shot and killed by security forces."

 

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Jarring scenes from the bombing scene near the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan

The images suggest it was a brazen attack on U.S. troops in a relatively safe section of Kabul where Westerners regularly travel near the international airport.

 

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Taliban suicide attack on NATO troops in Kabul - The Hindu
Updated: June 30, 2015 23:18 IST
The attack took place less than a kilometre from the U.S. Embassy.
The Taliban launched a suicide car bomb attack on a NATO military convoy in Afghanistan’s capital on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding 26 others, including two U.S. soldiers, officials said. The blast sent a huge plume of black smoke over the city and scattered glass and metal across the main highway to Kabul’s airport.

Kabul deputy police chief Sayed Gulagha said a suicide bomber struck the convoy with a vehicle packed with explosives. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said two Afghan civilians were killed and at least 24 wounded, some critically.

A NATO spokeswoman said two American soldiers sustained minor injuries in the attack.

 

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Suicide explosion targets foreign forces' convoy in Kabul: Report | Zee News
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 13:56

Kabul: A suicide car bombing targeted a convoy of foreign forces in Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday mornning, reports said.

Afghan interior ministry spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi confirmed the report saying the attack happened in Kabul's Shah Shahid area.

We are confirming an explosion in Shah Shahid area of Kabul, and will update you on details shortly

— Sediq Sediqqi (@moispokesman) July 7, 2015

Taliban claimed the responsibility for the attack with spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid posting it on Twitter.

The NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan is gathering information on the attack, the CNN quoted a statement by spokesman Brian Tribus.

 

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What the fcuk NATO is still doing in Afghanistan?!?!

 

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12 killed in Afghanistan bomb explosions | Zee News
Last Updated: Sunday, July 12, 2015 - 17:22

Kabul: At least 12 civilians were killed in two roadside bomb explosions in Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.

Ten civilians died and at least seven were wounded after their van was hit by a roadside bomb in Tagab district in the country`s northeast, Khaama press quoted a police officer as saying.

The attack took place in an area where Taliban insurgents routinely attack security forces.

In the northern province of Kunduz, two civilians were killed when a roadside bomb struck a passing police vehicle, said Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, a police officer.

Four civilians and two policemen were also wounded in the blast.

IANS

 

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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (July 3, 2015) Command Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman James Fyfe, assigned to Navy Operational Support Center Phoenix, discusses patient care with Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Larry Bullard, assigned to Navy Operational Support Center Anchorage, at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit (MMU) based at Kandahar Airfield. Approximately 90 Navy Reserve and activity-duty Sailors and officers work at the MMU which is the primary trauma receiving and referral center for all combat casualties in Southern Afghanistan and is manned largely by individual augmentee personnel serving on the NATO-led mission Resolute Support. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Kristine Volk/Released)

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (June 25, 2015) Lt. Anthony Gomez, a registered nurse from Tampa, Fla., assigned to Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) Tampa, and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Norma Lane, from Imperial Beach, Calif., assigned to NOSC San Diego, calibrate a ventilator at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit (MMU), located at Train, Advise and Assist Command - South, Kandahar Airfield. Approximately 90 Navy Reserve and activity-duty Sailors and officers work at the MMU which is the primary trauma receiving and referral center for all combat casualties in Southern Afghanistan and is manned largely by individual augmentee personnel serving on the NATO-led mission Resolute Support. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Kristine Volk/Released/Released)

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (June 25, 2015) U.S. Navy Capt. Clay Allen, right, ScanEagle Theater Chief for ScanEagle Guardian 8 Site, explains the ScanEagle Skyhook recovery system to Rear Adm. Luke McCollum, vice commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, during a visit with deployed Sailors in McCollum's area of responsibility. ScanEagle missions are conducted for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance from Train, Advise and Assist Command - South based at Kandahar Airfield for the NATO-led Resolute Support mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Kristine Volk/Released)

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (June 25, 2015) Rear Adm. Luke McCollum, left, vice commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, examines the ScanEagle imaging system at the ScanEagle Guardian 8 Site. McCollum met with deployed Sailors in his area of responsibility serving on the NATO-led Resolute Support mission at Train, Advise and Assist Command - South based at Kandahar Airfield. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Kristine Volk/Released)

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (June 25, 2015) Rear Adm. Luke McCollum, right, vice commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, thanks Chief Naval Air Crewman Eugene Houtby, from Navy Operational Support Center Whidbey Island, after receiving a ScanEagle propeller and ScanEagle Guardian 8 crew patch. McCollum met with deployed Sailors in his area of responsibility serving on the NATO-led Resolute Support mission at Train, Advise and Assist Command - South based at Kandahar Airfield. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Kristine Volk/Released)

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (June 25, 2015) A ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle from ScanEagle Guardian 8 Site sits ready for launch by Rear Adm. Luke McCollum, vice commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. McCollum met with deployed Sailors in his area of responsibility assigned to Train, Advise and Assist Command - South based at Kandahar Airfield. ScanEagle missions include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for the NATO-led Resolute Support effort. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Kristine Volk/Released)

 

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Car bombing kills 8 in Afghanistan | Zee News
Last Updated: Friday, August 7, 2015 - 10:17

Kabul: At least eight people were killed and more than 100 injured on Friday when a car bomb went off in the eastern part of Afghanistan`s capital Kabul, police said.

The incident occurred near an army camp in Shah Shahid area. All the victims were civilians, Xinhua quoted a security source as saying.

An Afghan police officer, walks at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb hidden in a truck exploded in the center of the Afghan capital. Police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said the pre-dawn blast was near a Defense Ministry compound, but that all of the victims were civilians, including women and children.

 

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Army Green Beret from Rhode Island killed in Afghanistan

BRISTOL, R.I. — An Army Green Beret from Rhode Island was killed in Afghanistan just a month after he was honored at the Fourth of July parade in his hometown of Bristol.

The 7th Special Forces Group to which he was assigned said Sunday that 35-year-old Master Sgt. Peter Andrew McKenna Jr. died Friday in Kabul during an attack on a NATO facility. McKenna, a 17-year Army veteran, was serving at the rank of first sergeant during his deployment. The Pentagon said he was struck by enemy small arms fire.

Rhode Island U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, who announced McKenna's death Saturday night, had joined state Rep. Raymond Gallison at the parade to present McKenna with a U.S. flag flown over the Capitol.

Gov. Gina Raimondo ordered flags flown at half-staff beginning Tuesday through his funeral services.

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An Army carry team transports the remains of Army 1st Sgt. Peter A. McKenna Jr., of Bristol, R.I., upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Monday. The 7th Special Forces Group, to which he was assigned, said that McKenna died Friday in Kabul, Afghanistan, during an attack on a NATO facility. Jose Luis Magana/AP

 

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Reuters / Monday, August 10, 2015
Policemen stand at the site of a car bomb blast at the entrance gate to the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, August 10, 2015. A car bomb exploded near the entrance to Kabul airport and casualties are feared, officials said on Monday, days after series of suicide attacks in the Afghan capital killed dozens and wounded hundreds. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

 

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Kabul car bomb kills 10, targeted foreigners - The Hindu
Updated: August 22, 2015 19:40 IST

Foreign security contractors arrive at the site of a bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan August 22, 2015. A car bomb exploded outside a private hospital in Kabul on Saturday killing one person and injuring 18 more, a senior health official said.

A car bomb outside a Kabul hospital killed at least 10 people and caused widespread casualties among Afghan civilians, although it appeared to have targeted a vehicle carrying foreign citizens, witnesses and security sources said,

At least one foreigner was among the 10 killed by the bomb that wounded 60 people, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar said.

 

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Blame Pakistan. Thats the Only way to escape ur failure .