Taliban Bombs Kill 30 in Worst Attack on Kabul Since April
- Convoy carrying police cadets on outskirts of Kabul targeted
- Taliban claims responsibility for Afghanistan suicide bombings
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Taliban suicide bombers targeted a convoy of Afghan police cadets and trainers on Thursday, killing at least 30 on the western outskirts of Kabul, the worst single attack in the capital in two months.
The twin suicide attacks also wounded about 60 people when the Taliban bombers ambushed five police buses, two of which were destroyed by the blasts, said Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said in an e-mail that the insurgent group claimed responsibility for the attack. One suicide bomber on foot detonated explosives, followed by another in a car shortly after the first blast, he said.