Suicide vehicle bombing at Kabul airport kills at least 4

A vehicle bomb exploded at the entrance Kabul’s the global airport Monday, killing at least five people in the latest bloodshed following a 24-hour blitz of Taliban bombings and attacks last week.

UNAMA condemned the series of attacks that began at dawn on Friday, the first since Taliban leader Mullah Omar died and the new insurgent chief, Akhtar Mansour, was named in a contest of internal rivalry over the succession.

They have also stoked tensions with neighbouring Pakistan, the base of many leaders of the hardline Islamist Taliban movement, according to many in Afghanistan.

A spokesman for the Taliban insurgents, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the bombing at the airport – one of the most heavily guarded sites in the Afghan capital and adjacent to a military case with coalition forces backing Afghan forces.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accused Pakistan on Monday of sending “messages of war” and harbouring bombmaking camps, after a wave of devastating blasts in Kabul killed at least 56 people.

On Monday there was a auto bomb attack on people lining up to get into Kabul worldwide airport.

Four civilians were killed, and 17 people wounded, including a woman and a child, said Wahidullah Mayar, a spokesman for the public health ministry.

“The decisions that Pakistani government will be making in the next few weeks will … affect bilateral relations for the next decades”, Ghani said. Under pressure with the security woes, President Ashraf Ghani is following a time-honored strategy: he’s blaming Pakistan.

He said he had spoken with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif about the escalation of violence in Afghanistan and that an Afghan delegation will travel to Pakistan to discuss enhanced counter-terrorism cooperation.

But the Taliban distanced themselves from a second round of talks scheduled for the end of July, after the announcement of Mr. Omar’s death.

“The doors of government are open for peace, peace with those who are Afghans and believe in humanity and renounce terrorism”, President Ghani told reporters at a press conference held in Arg or Presidential Palace.

The United Nations published a study last week that showed civilian casualties in the war-torn country have hit a record-high in the first six months of 2015.

Kabul was already on excessive alert earlier than the blast after final week’s assaults which killed a minimum of 50 civilians and safety forces personnel within the worst violence seen within the metropolis in years.