KABUL — As many as 12 people were killed near Kabul’s airport Tuesday when a suicide car-bomber rammed into a mini-van full of aviation workers, police said.
The majority of victims were foreigners, said Kabul police official Gen. Mohammad Zahir. A spokesman for a Pakistan-based jihad group, Hizb-e-Islami, asserted responsibility for the blast and said it was to avenge a video that defames the Prophet Muhammad.
The nationalities of the nine foreign workers was not yet known, Zahir said. He said the blast also killed the van’s Afghan driver and two persons on the road, which serves as an access route to the heavily fortified Kabul International Airport.
The nationalities of the nine foreign workers was not yet known, Zahir said. He said the blast also killed the van’s Afghan driver and two persons on the road, which serves as an access route to the heavily fortified Kabul International Airport.
The bomber was a young Kabul woman, according to a Haroon Zarghhon, a spokesman for Hizb-e-Islami chief Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The maverick group is sometimes allied with the Taliban but also has members serving in the Afghan government.
The van belonged the international delivery company DHL, according Zahir, the head of the police criminal investigation department.
The blast came a day after violent protests in Kabul sparked by the incendiary, Islam-insulting "Innocence of Muslims" video that has caused Muslim outrage worldwide.
“I am so happy that the suicide bomber killed foreigners because they insulted our Holy Prophet,” said eyewitness Ameer Mohammad, 58, who was running to the blast site.
The road is also heavily used by school children, but it appeared that none were killed because they were on the sidewalk opposite from the blast. A 12-year-old student named Rameen, who was on his way to school, said, “I heard a horrible explosion, I fell down to the ground. When I stood up I saw dead bodies.”
The road is also heavily used by school children, but it appeared that none were killed because they were on the sidewalk opposite from the blast. A 12-year-old student named Rameen, who was on his way to school, said, “I heard a horrible explosion, I fell down to the ground. When I stood up I saw dead bodies.”
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