On Thursday morning, a British G4S security guard was among the casualties in the Kabul bomb attack when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-packed vehicle into a UK embassy car in Afghanistan. The attack has killed at least five people, while more than 30 were injured.
According to the officials, the Kabul bomb attack happened when the bomber's vehicle threw the embassy car on to its side, on the highway connecting to Jalalabad. The dead British citizen was a security guard with the private security firm G4S, which is the world's largest security company.
The Kabul bomb attack on the UK embassy car has also killed an Afghan employee in the British embassy. Another British citizen was also reportedly injured. According to The Independent UK, the Taliban have claimed responsibility for the bombing.
"[The bombing] targeted foreign invading forces," Taliban said in an Al Jazeera report.
The British embassy in Kabul confirmed that their car was struck in the bomb attack but added that no diplomats were killed or injured. The agency also said that a number of its staff were being treated for injuries. Meanwhile, G4S security firm also confirmed that one of its staff had been killed in the explosion while another was injured.
The blast could be heard across Kabul and a cloud of smoke rose high into the air above the attack site on Jalalabad Road. The site was a main route that houses many foreign compounds and military facilities.
On the other hand, a second blast quaked buildings in the diplomatic quarter at a compound run by a contractor for the US aid agency in Afghanistan. As reported by Yahoo! News, it was followed by an intense hour-long gun battle between insurgents and Afghan security forces. The security forces said blasts and gunfire continued periodically and coalition helicopters flew overhead, assisting with efforts to clear the area of at least one more suicide bomber.
Since Monday, there have been at least five high-profile attacks in Kabul when two American soldiers were killed in a powerful explosion near the airport.
The Kabul bomb attack that struck an embassy car is the latest in a flood of assaults to hit the Afghan capital as the majority of foreign combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of the year after a 13-year battle against the Taliban and its allies.
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