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| At least one person has been killed and three injured in a suicide bomb attack on the international airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul. | At least one person has been killed and three injured in a suicide bomb attack on the international airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul. |
| Authorities say the bomber blew himself up in a car at the entrance to the military section of the airport. | Authorities say the bomber blew himself up in a car at the entrance to the military section of the airport. |
| Foreign troops appeared to be the target of the attack, reports say. | Foreign troops appeared to be the target of the attack, reports say. |
| A BBC correspondent who was at the airport describes the blast as huge. The explosion shook windows and rattled houses a good distance away, he says. | A BBC correspondent who was at the airport describes the blast as huge. The explosion shook windows and rattled houses a good distance away, he says. |
| The explosion happened early on Friday close to the entrance of the airport, which has separate military and civilian sections. | |
| Television pictures from the scene suggest it went off near the entrance used by the Nato-led international force. | |
| 'Really loud' | |
| "A car drove fast and blew up next to crowd, which included Afghan National Army soldiers," an eyewitness, Mansur, was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying. | |
| A senior police official, General Ali Shah Paktiawal, told reporters the attack appeared to have been aimed at foreign troops. | |
| A BBC correspondent was sitting on a plane ready for take-off at the time and said the blast had shaken the aircraft. | |
| "It was really, really loud," he said. | |
| He said that the airport staff visible from the plane had leapt to the ground in fear. | |
| Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. | |
| There are more than 50,000 US and other coalition troops fighting with Afghan soldiers against Taleban militants in Afghanistan. |