At least 17 people, mostly foreign forces, were killed when a Taliban car bomber struck a US-run NATO convoy travelling through the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday. The attacker detonated his Toyota Sedan car at 11:20am in the southwest of the city, and at least 13 US troops, three civilians and a policeman were among the casualties, police and Western officials said.
“The attack targeted an American NATO bus,” said a Western military official on condition of anonymity. “There are 12 or 13 people, mostly Americans,” he said, giving the foreign death toll. Spokesman for the Interior Ministry Siddiq Siddiqui said three Afghan civilians and a policeman had been killed but he had no information on foreign casualties.
“It was a huge explosion, I saw at least ten bodies of foreign forces taken out of their capsized bus and evacuated by two helicopters,” one witness told AFP at the scene. A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the attack.
