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BBC News - 18 minutes ago - Taliban kill 40 with ambulance bomb in Afghan capital Kabul

Who are the Taliban?

A suicide bombing has killed at least 40 people and injured 140 others in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, officials say.

Attackers drove an ambulance laden with explosives past a police checkpoint into a street that was closed to public transport.

It happened near the old interior ministry building and offices of the European Union and High Peace Council.

The Taliban have said they carried out the attack.

A week ago, Taliban militants killed 22 people in a luxury Kabul hotel.

Witnesses say the area - home to foreign embassies and the city's police headquarters - was crowded with people when the bomb exploded on Saturday at about 12:15 local time (08:45 GMT). Plumes of smoke were seen from around the city.

Officials said the death toll would probably continue to rise as casualties were brought to hospitals for medical attention.

The Taliban, a hardline Islamic movement, control large swathes of Afghanistan and parts of neighbouring Pakistan.

THIS IS FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:

Kabul Bombing: Suicide Assault Kills Dozens in Afghanistan With Ambulance Attack. At least 95 dead, 158 injured in blast inside Afghan government’s security cordon.

A man receives assistance after a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul on Saturday PHOTO: MOHAMMAD ISMAIL/REUTERS

By Craig Nelson and Ehsanullah Amiri Updated Jan. 27, 2018

KABUL—A bomb hidden inside an ambulance exploded near a crowd of police in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and injuring 158 others, authorities said, as a weeklong wave of violence in Afghanistan’s cities claimed more lives.

“It’s a massacre,” said Dejan Panic, coordinator in Afghanistan for the Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a trauma hospital near the site of the explosion. The blast sent billows of smoke and dust high above Kabul’s skyline and shattered windows for blocks.

The Taliban, Afghanistan’s largest insurgency, claimed responsibility for the bomb blast in the capital’s Shar-e-Now neighborhood.

The attack, the third major urban assault by militants in less than a week, occurred inside the government’s security cordon known as the “Ring of Steel.” It was likely to raise concerns again about the ability of Afghanistan’s security forces to protect the country’s cities, even as U.S.-backed forces, especially allied air power, step up military pressure on the Taliban and Islamic State elsewhere.

In a speech on Friday to world and financial leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. was “committed to insuring that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven for terrorists who want to commit mass murder to our civilian populations.”

Basir Mujahid, a spokesman for the Kabul police, said the driver of the ambulance succeeded in getting through one checkpoint but then was stopped at a second, where he detonated the explosives inside the vehicle.

The blast occurred near several foreign embassies and the offices of the High Peace Council, charged with overseeing reconciliation efforts between the government and the Taliban.

In a statement, however, the Taliban said police were the target, and a witness said the blast went off among a throng of police waiting to get documents processed at a nearby Interior Ministry office.

“Dozens of police officers were in line to get inside the building, which was closed because of the lunch break,” said the witness, rivulets of dried blood on his face and forehead and granules of glass in his hair.

“Then a big boom threw me to the ground. I got up, opened my eyes and saw only clouds of smoke and dust.”

As shopkeepers gathered the shards of their shattered windows into tidy piles next to the curbs in front of their stores, emergency vehicles streamed to and from the site of the blast for more than an hour after the explosion. The rear doors of one careening ambulance were swinging open, and inside were stacked four, soot-covered bodies clothed in camouflage.

Fears of a follow-up attack ran high. Checking one ambulance, soldiers and armed police suddenly drew their weapons, yanked out the driver and the passengers and forced them at gunpoint up against the side of the vehicle. Pedestrians scurried away amid shouted warnings that it might contain another bomb.

Saturday’s death toll brought to at least 124 the number of dead in attacks by militant groups in Afghanistan in the past week.

The Taliban said it was behind the raid on the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul last weekend that left at least 23 people dead, including four Americans.

The local affiliate of Islamic State said it carried out the attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad on the local office of the international charity Save the Children, in which at least six people died.

—Habib Totakhil contributed to this article.