Suicide Blast Rocks Kabul, at Least 28 Killed

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.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said fighters had entered an office of the country's main national security agency.
Counterterrorism forces "pinned down the terrorists" inside the National Directorate of Security building, according to interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi.
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.

At least 28 people were killed and almost 200 injured after a suicide bomb rocked the heart of Afghanistan's capital on Tuesday, NBC News reported.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred outside of the country's main national security agency.  

Counterterrorism forces "pinned down the terrorists" who entered the National Directorate of Security, according to interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi.

Kabul police chief Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi told reporters at the scene that 28 people had been killed and 180 injured. The Ministry of Public Health, meanwhile, put the number of wounded at 327.

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