Mon 02 September 2019:
Interior ministry confirms explosion took place in eastern Kabul where the UN has several offices.
A massive suicide car bombing has struck the Afghan capital, Kabul, the country’s interior ministry said.
A ministry spokesperson Nasrat Rahimi said the explosion took place in eastern Kabul where the United Nations has several offices.
Another interior ministry official told the local TOLOnews channel that the blast was caused by a car bomb.
The explosion comes just hours after US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad briefed the Afghan president on a deal “in principle” with the Taliban for ending America’s longest war.
It was not immediately clear whether the blast had caused any casualties.
Earlier on Monday, a second attack by the Taliban in as many days left several civilians and security forces dead.
Four civilians and two members of the security forces were killed in the attack the previous day on Puli Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province, with 20 civilians and two security forces wounded.
It added that 21 Taliban fighters were dead.
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