A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a military training centre in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding six, police and security officials said.
One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attacker detonated his explosives after being prevented from entering the Marshal Fahim National Defence University in Kabul.
Kabul police spokesman Firdaws Faramarz said the suicide bomber had been on foot.
The explosion occurred as cadets were leaving the college, which is one of Afghanistan‘s main officer training academies.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but insurgents have targeted this academy in the past.
Both the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS) group have staged large-scale attacks in the Afghan capital.
Police and security forces in and around Kabul have come under frequent attack in recent weeks, even as the US and the Taliban have held talks about a possible peace agreement.
Opened in 2005 and named after former vice president Mohammed Fahim, the Marshal Fahim academy is modelled after US and British war colleges and trains cadets destined to become officers in Afghanistan’s army.
A large annexe to the university is home to dozens of NATO troops who mentor the Afghan cadets.
The explosion was not believed to have affected operations at that centre, which lies behind multiple layers of tight security.
from Viral News Reports http://bit.ly/2MdLI02
0 Comments