Taliban Claim Responsibility for Deadly Bombings in Afghan Capital
Officials said a bomb went off at a neighborhood police headquarters in southwestern Kabul,
and a second explosion was heard a short time later on the eastern side, near the offices of the National Directorate of Security, the intelligence agency.
By ROD NORDLAND and ZAHRA NADERMARCH 1, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban set off two explosions in quick succession in the capital on
Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 50 more, according to Afghan officials.
Sediq Seddiqi, the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, said in a Twitter post
that two terrorists had been killed, and five security force members injured.
It was the first insurgent bombing in Kabul since Feb. 7, when a suicide bomber
killed more than a dozen people outside the offices of the Supreme Court.