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Suicide attack kills 18 in Kabul

A TALIBAN suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy yesterday in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing six soldiers, five of them American, officials said. Twelve Afghan civilians also died - many of them on a bus.

The powerful blast occurred on a major thoroughfare in the capital that runs by the ruins of a one-time royal palace and government ministries. It wrecked nearly 20 vehicles, including five SUVs in the NATO convoy, and scattered debris and body parts across a boulevard. The body of a woman in a burqa was smashed against the window of the bus.

The attack - the deadliest for NATO troops in Kabul since September - comes despite a ramped up effort by Afghan authorities to intercept would-be attackers and better secure a capital city that saw a spate of brazen attacks this winter.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the foreign convoy was the target of the attack.

 

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