Suicide blast rocks Kabul, at Least 20 Killed
Baku, April 19, AZERTAC
At least 20 people were killed and almost 200 injured after a suicide bomb rocked the heart of Afghanistan's capital on Tuesday, NBC News reported, according to nbcnewyork.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said fighters had entered an office of the country's main national security agency.
The target of the blast was not immediately clear but it struck close to the Afghan Ministry of Defense and just a few hundred yards from the Afghan presidential palace and NATO's local headquarters.
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