KABUL — A suicide car bomber attacked the heavily fortified Afghan capital early today, killing at least three people and wounding 21, officials said.
Initial reports of the explosion in western Kabul indicated that U.S. vehicles were targeted, said Abdul Ghafor Sayedzada, the chief of the city police’s criminal investigation unit. The area around the blast site is also home to Afghan government buildings, including the Ministry of Energy and Water.
An Associated Press reporter on the scene saw the wreckage of a public bus and and four sport utility vehicles. The SUVs were painted white and grey, but no markings identifying them as American were immediately discernible.
The U.S. Embassy and NATO forces both declined to comment on whether any of their vehicles were involved in the attack.
U.S. soldiers and Afghan police were working to secure the site as news trickled out of deaths and injuries. A police officer at the scene, Habibullah Mohammadi, said he saw three dead bodies, and an AP reporter saw one dead body carried away by police.
At least 12 wounded people were evacuated to hospitals, said Mirza Mohammad, a doctor who was treating the injured.
The Associated Press
