Kabul - 14 Foreign Security Guards Killed In Bombing

Kabul: On Monday, a Taliban bomber killed 14 Nepalese security guards in an attack on their minibus in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Interior Ministry and an Afghan security official said.

The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, a spokesman for the group confirmed to Al Jazeera.

The attacker on Monday was on foot, police said, as they reported multiple casualties among the bus passengers who were “employees of a foreign compound”. A security official said a magnetic bomb planted in the vehicle of MP Ataullah Faizani was detonated in the Chel Siton area. The official said Faizani and five others were injured.

The bus was carrying Nepalese guards, according to a witness, who also reported more than two dozen ambulances at the scene. It was the first attack in Kabul since the start of holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 6.

And later Monday in Kabul, a second Taliban bombing killed an Afghan civilian and wounded five people, including a provincial council member who was the intended target of that attack, authorities said.

The last attack in the Afghan capital on April 19 left 64 dead and more than 340 wounded. That attack was claimed by the Taliban, which has fought the Western-backed Kabul government since the group were ousted from power by a US-led invasion in late 2001.