Suicide bombing at checkpoint near Kabul airport

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Monday 10 Aug 2015 - 12:44 Makkah mean time-25-10-1436 Kabul, (IINA) - Afghan authorities said on Monday that a suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the entrance of Kabul's international airport, BBC reported. Kabul police chief Sayed Gul Agha Rouhani told reporters that a suicide bomber had driven a vehicle into the first checkpoint on the road into the airport. On the other side, a health ministry spokesperson said seven civilians were injured in the blast, which happened shortly after midday local time (07:30 GMT). Security officials at the scene said the attack appeared to target a convoy of armoured cars. The incident is the latest in a series of recent deadly attacks in Kabul. It is unclear who is behind the bombing, but the Taliban said it carried out one of three deadly attacks on Friday that killed at least 50 people. A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up near the city's police academy on Friday evening, killing about 20 recruits. A short while later, gunmen launched an attack on Camp Integrity, a Nato base that houses US special forces near the airport. Eleven people, including a Nato soldier and eight contractors, were killed in the attack on the base. Earlier on Friday, a truck carrying explosives was detonated near an army base in the Shah Shahid area of the capital, claiming 15 lives. On Saturday, a day after a massive truck bomb detonated in a residential area near an Afghan National Army base, one local resident sifting through the rubble at the blast site said he had been unable to locate two of his friends and feared their bodies were still trapped underneath the collapsed buildings, according to ABC news. The enormous force of the truck bomb alerted Kabul residents across the city to the beginning of an extraordinary day of bloodshed. The explosion caused a massive crater at its centre and levelled dozens of nearby shops and homes. SM/IINA