Attacks In The Afghan Capital Kill 5
Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET
At least five people are dead in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after after a suicide bombing attack on a British embassy vehicle. A foreign compound in the diplomatic area of the city also came under attack.
The BBC says that "a British worker and an Afghan member of staff among those killed.
"The Briton who died was a member of the embassy security team, as was another UK national who was wounded.
"Three other Afghans were killed and more than 30 wounded in the attack, which the Taliban say they carried out."
Hours later, NPR's Sean Carberry, reporting from the Afghan capital, said there was gunfire and blasts coming from the city's diplomatic area.
Sean says initial reports indicated that the only foreigner injured was a Nepalese security guard and that two of the attackers had been killed in a firefight to defend the complex, while a third attacker had either been killed in the initial blast or was still at large.
Reuters, quoting a local military commander, reports that the blast was the result of a car bomb.
The commander of 111 Military Corps Kabul, Qadam Shah Shaheem, told Reuters that the target was a foreign guesthouse in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of the city, where many embassies and international organizations are located.
"Two or three insurgents have entered the compound. Our forces are there and the fight is ongoing," he told Reuters.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the second attack.
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