Kabul: A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed 63 people and wounded about 151 at a police checkpoint in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, in an area near foreign embassies and government buildings.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, a week after it claimed an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in which more than 20 people were killed.
“It is a massacre,” said Dejan Panic coordinator in Afghanistan for the Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a nearby trauma hospital. In a message on Twitter, the group said more than 50 wounded had been brought in to that hospital alone.