[DAWN] A jacket wallah went kaboom! on a busy shopping street near the heavily-fortified US embassy in central Kabul on Tuesday, killing five people and injuring several others, officials said.
It was the latest in a series of deadly attacks to hit the Afghan capital, and comes around three months after a massive truck bomb destroyed the same area, killing about 150 people.
"At around 10am (local time) a suicide bomber set off his explosives near a private bank and close to Massoud Square. More details later," Najib Danish, a front man for Afghanistan's interior ministry, told AFP.
He added in a message on Twitter that four people had died in the attack.
The blast happened at a time when many officials were expected to be collecting their salaries ahead of this week's Eid holiday.
Taliban claim Kabul bank attack that killed 5
[Ynet] The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
have grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom just outside a bank in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing at least five people.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, posted the claim on his twitter account, saying that a Taliban jacket wallah targeted military personnel who had gathered on Tuesday at the Kabul Bank to collect their salaries ahead of the Moslem holiday of Eid al-Adha.
According to Afghan officials, along with the five killed, nine people were also maimed in the attack which happened in a busy commercial area in central Kabul, not far from the US. Embassy. 
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