Suicide attack on Afghan MP kills three in Kabul


  • World
  • Monday, 30 Mar 2015

Afghan policemen stand while firefighters wash the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, March 29, 2015. At least three civilian were killed and seven were wounded, a police official said. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan member of parliament survived a targeted suicide attack in Kabul on Sunday but three people including a child were killed and eight others injured, police and government sources said.

The parliamentarian, Gul Pacha Majidi, had been leaving a meeting in east Kabul when the bomber approached him on foot.

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