Explosion reported in Afghan capital amid rush hour

Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the country’s Interior Ministry, said: “It was a suicide bombing against a foreign forces convoy in a crowded part of the city and there are casualties”. “A loud explosion was heard in Kabul reportedly of a suicide attack against foreign army convoy”, the private media outlet reported.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to local television channel Tolo News, the foreign troop was attacked by suicide bombers in the Afghan capital. However, the number of causalities, and the insurgent faction behind the attack is yet to be ascertained. Afghan forces recaptured most of the city by October 1, officials said.

As fighting spreads in neighbouring Badakhshan, Takhar and Baghlan provinces, concerns are mounting that the seizure of Kunduz was merely the opening gambit in a new, bolder strategy to tighten the insurgency’s grip across northern Afghanistan.

A small contingent of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces consisting around 10,000 American soldiers is still deployed in Afghanistan to focus on training and counter-terrorism operations. President Barack Obama has apologised over the strike, with three different investigations – led by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, U.S. forces and Afghan officials – now under way.