At least 7 killed in Kabul car bomb blast: Interior ministry

At least
seven people were killed and seven wounded when a car bomb exploded during
Kabul’s busy morning on Wednesday, an interior ministry spokesman said.

The
spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi, said the bomb had gone off in a neighbourhood which
is near the interior ministry and north of Kabul airport. He said the dead were
all civilians. “This is the initial information, more details later,” he added.

A source at
the interior ministry said the blast was exploded by a suicide bomber in the
car, and that it had targeted a convoy of government vehicles on a main road.

The blast
came one day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced that Kabul would
release three high ranking Taliban prisoners in an apparent prisoner swap with
Western hostages who were kidnapped by the insurgents in 2016.