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| Kabul 'bomb attack' on US embassy | Kabul 'bomb attack' on US embassy |
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| A suspected suicide bomber has struck close to the entrance to the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, witnesses and police say. | A suspected suicide bomber has struck close to the entrance to the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, witnesses and police say. |
| Police said four people, reportedly civilians, were killed in the blast. | |
| Reports said the bomber detonated explosives about 200m from the heavily guarded entrance to the US compound. | Reports said the bomber detonated explosives about 200m from the heavily guarded entrance to the US compound. |
| Security in Afghanistan has become a key concern for foreign troops and officials, as the country faces an increasingly strong Taleban insurgency. | Security in Afghanistan has become a key concern for foreign troops and officials, as the country faces an increasingly strong Taleban insurgency. |
| "The information we have so far is that four people have been killed and three wounded. It was a suicide attack," a city police chief, Gen Alishah Paktiawal, told the AFP news agency. | |
| The Associated Press said the US embassy was hosting a Thanksgiving Day event, and Americans and others foreigners were entering the compound at the time of the explosion. |