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| Suicide attack on Turkish embassy car in Kabul kills one |
| 2015-02-27 |
| [Pak Daily Times] A jacket wallah rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into a Turkish embassy car in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least one person inside, the ministry of interior said. The kaboom struck in the heart of the heavily fortified diplomatic quarter, close to the German, Iranian and Turkish embassies, rattling windows and putting embassy staff on high alert. "A suicide kaboom targeted a convoy of the Turkish embassy," deputy interior minister General Ayoub Salanghi told news hounds at the site of the blast, adding that the driver of the vehicle had been killed and one person maimed. The Taliban swiftly grabbed credit, saying it had targeted a convoy of foreign forces causing many injuries. The bully boy Islamist group often inflates casualty claims. It was the second time an embassy vehicle has been targeted by holy warriors in the capital in recent months, after a British car was attacked by a suicide bomber in November. One Turkish official reached by phone confirmed the location of the incident, but said he could not provide further details. |
| Posted by:Fred |