KABUL — A suicide bomber killed at least six people, most of them children, in one of the Afghan capital’s highest-security zones when he detonated his explosives Saturday not far from the walled headquarters of NATO-backed military forces, witnesses and officials said.
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No foreign troops were among the dead, the military coalition said. Reports conflicted over how the bomber entered the area, but it is readily accessible via a street closed to most vehicles but frequented by pedestrians and cyclists.
The Taliban asserted responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out in response to the U.S. announcement Friday that it would designate the Taliban-allied Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, freezing the group’s assets in the United States, among other sanctions.
The bomber, described by Kabul police as 14, detonated his explosives about 150 feet from the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, the coalition made up mostly of U.S. troops.
Several sensitive facilities — including a CIA station, the Italian and Spanish embassies and an installation of the Afghan spy service — abut the street. Their entrances are heavily guarded, but no security barriers to the street itself were in place even a few hours after the noonday blast, when a reporter visited the scene.
The Taliban asserted responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out in response to the U.S. announcement Friday that it would designate the Taliban-allied Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, freezing the group’s assets in the United States, among other sanctions.
The bomber, described by Kabul police as 14, detonated his explosives about 150 feet from the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force, the coalition made up mostly of U.S. troops.
Several sensitive facilities — including a CIA station, the Italian and Spanish embassies and an installation of the Afghan spy service — abut the street. Their entrances are heavily guarded, but no security barriers to the street itself were in place even a few hours after the noonday blast, when a reporter visited the scene.
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