Officials say a girl was killed when a suicide attacker detonated a mini truck full of explosives near a convoy of international forces in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday.
“The body of a small girl and nine injured have been transported by Kabul ambulance,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, Mohammad Kawoosi, told dpa.
News channel 1TV reported that an 11-year-old boy was also killed while selling vegetables from a nearby horse-drawn carriage.
According to media reports citing the Interior Ministry, 14 Afghans were injured in the attack.
Kabul police spokesman Basir Mujahid told dpa that the suicide attacker targeted the convoy on the important traffic artery Jalalabad Road in the Qabel Bay area.
The foreign forces’ vehicles apparently sustained no damage, according to Mujahid.
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A spokesman of the NATO mission Resolute Support said, “We are aware of these reports and are investigating a response.”
The explosion site is close to two large work and living compounds of the UN and other international organisations.
No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack so far.
On Wednesday, delegates from 26 countries came together in Kabul to discuss ways for the Afghan government to make peace with the Islamist Taliban movement.
They also discussed counter-terrorism measures.
The war against the Taliban as well as the Islamic State terrorist militia has intensified starkly since the end of the NATO combat mission in December 2014.
In 2017, more than 10,000 civilians were killed or injured and around 460,000 were forced to flee their homes amid the surge in violence.
