Kabul bomb targets foreign contractors, kills mostly Afghans


  • World
  • Saturday, 22 Aug 2015

Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan August 22, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

KABUL (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting a convoy carrying civilian NATO contractors killed 12 people outside a Kabul hospital on Saturday, part of a wave of attacks in the capital since news broke last month of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

Scores were wounded in the suicide attack on a busy residential street. Three of the dead were foreigners.

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