Fourteen people were killed when a suicide bomber carried out an attack near Kabul’s airport in Afghanistan on Sunday, authorities said. They said the blast narrowly missed the country’s vice president who was returning home after living in Turkey for more than a year.
Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said the blast occurred near Kabul International Airport shortly after the convoy of the controversial vice president had just left the airport.
Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a former Uzbek warlord, and his entourage were unharmed, said Danish. Fourteen people, including both civilians and military forces, were killed in the attack and 50 others wounded, police said.
The Islamic States of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) local affiliate claimed responsibility for the attack on its Amaaq News Agency website, claiming it had killed and wounded over 115 people. The attacker set off his explosives just outside the airport’s gate, police spokesperson Hashmat Stanikzai.
