A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle at the entrance of a foreign-run compound in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least two Afghan guards, officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the early-morning blast, which shook windows across the Afghan capital and sent a plume of smoke into the sky over the east of the city.
The exact target of the attack was unclear, but the area houses many facilities for foreign contract companies.
“It was a bomb in a small truck at the gate of a foreign base. Initial reports show two guards killed, several wounded,” Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the ministry of interior, told reporters.
“The guards were Afghan. After the blast, two other attackers tried to enter the base and were killed by guards,” Danish said the camp was run by an international company.
On Sunday Afghan lawmaker Shukria Barakzai escaped a suicide blast in Kabul as she drove in a convoy near parliament.
Three civilians died in that attack.