Suicide auto bombing targeting convoy kills 3 in Afghanistan

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation confirmed that a suicide bomber who attacked one of its convoys as it traveled through a neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul Saturday killed 10 people, including three civilian contractors.

On August. 7, a Taliban assault on a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation army base close to Kabul’s worldwide airport killed an American soldier and eight Afghan contractors.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation did not name the dead contractors in its statement.

Al Jazeera’s Jeniffer Glasse, reporting form Kabul, said: “The target was apparently a vehicle carrying foreign contractors”.

The dead included mostly civilians, Sayed Kabir Amiri, head of Kabul’s hospitals department told reporters.

But interestingly, Taliban has denied they were behind the attack as most of the attack in the country has been done by them.

A six-story office building across the street from the blast had all of its windows broken, with many inside wounded from broken glass.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and US forces past year ended their combat mission in Afghanistan.

In addition to those killed, as many as 66 people were wounded in the attack, said Wahidullah Mayar, a Health Ministry spokesman.

Gen. Wilson Shoffner, the U.S.-led coalition’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, in a statement.

A U.S. decision to withhold the military aid would damage Pakistan’s claims it takes action against all terrorist groups without prejudice.

But the Taliban, who often don’t claim attacks that have a high number of civilian causalities, have launched a series of attacks in Kabul in recent weeks following the announcement of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

Xinhua reporter at the site of the deadly bombing saw that women and children are also among the casualties.

Talks with the Taliban had stalled after it emerged that the group’s obscure supremo Mullah Omar had died two years ago.