AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills
Breaking News: In a suspected suicide car bombing in Kabul, Afghan's capital, the Wazir Akbar Khan district was shaken by the deadly blast. It was not clear whether the Heetal Hotel – a popular hotel with foreigners – was the intended target.
Just outside the hotel gate, a car was in flames, with many more destroyed. People were dead and wounded, including two of former first vice president, Ahmed Zia Massoud's guards. "Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior said later that eight people were killed; four men and four women. Another 40 people were wounded," says Times Online.
A Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty correspondent reported, "The blast took place as President Hamid Karzai and many diplomats and officials were attending an anticorruption conference in another part of the capital."
"Zamarai Bashari, an Interior Ministry spokesman, tells RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan that the area is now locked down by police."
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, claimed responsibility for the attack.
For more details, and the rest of the story, go to Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, or Times Online.com.
Sources: Radio Free Europe; Times Online
Photo credit: (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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