At least three foreign troops killed in Afghanistan suicide attack
Published September 16, 2014
September 16, 2014: NATO and Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The NATO-led international military coalition in Afghanistan said three of its service members were killed and five others were wounded Tuesday when a Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a foreign motorcade just a couple hundred yards from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
Security forces in full battle gear administered CPR to wounded comrades shortly after the 8:10 a.m. blast, which rattled nearby neighborhoods and sent a plume of smoke high into the sky.
The attack which the Taliban claimed responsibility for -- happened on a main Kabul road that leads to the airport, next to an ISAF base that houses many Americans.
The statement from the coalition known as ISAF did not say which nationalities the troops were.
The three military deaths -- and a fourth in the country's east -- brought the total number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 59, at least 42 of whom were American.
The blast turned several vehicles into twisted metal and bloodied and dazed Afghan passers-by. Good Samaritans scooped up the wounded into their arms and carried them to medical workers.
Ashmat Stanikzai, a spokesman for the Kabul police, said 13 Afghans were wounded. More than a dozen vehicles were damaged, the police said.
In the aftermath of the blast, Afghan and foreign troops secured the area as fire and rescue vehicles moved in. Investigators inspected an empty black SUV, its windows smashed and exterior pockmarked with shrapnel.
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At least three foreign troops killed in Afghanistan suicide attack