Taliban suicide bombings in Afghan capital kill 3, wound 50
KABUL -- A pair of near-simultaneous Taliban suicide bombings struck the Afghan capital on Wednesday, targeting a police station and offices of the country's intelligence agency and killing at least three people, officials said.
In the police station attack, a suicide car bomber rammed his car into the gates of the station in western Kabul. Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the explosion was followed by a gun battle between police and an unknown number of attackers.
In the second attack, a bomber on foot detonated his explosives outside the offices of the intelligence service in eastern Kabul.
Ismail Kawasi, spokesman for the public health ministry said that at least three people were killed in both attacks. Mohammad Saber Nasim, head of a Kabul hospital, said nearly 50 wounded were brought to the hospital.
