{Taliban claims responsibility for first of two blasts in Afghan capital as police warn of more violence planned.}<\/p>\n
At least 14 foreign security guards have been killed after a suicide bomber hit a minibus in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, along the main road to the eastern city of Jalalabad, police said.<\/p>\n
The attacker on Monday was on foot, police said, as they reported multiple casualties among the bus passengers who were “employees of a foreign compound”.<\/p>\n
The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, a spokesman for the group confirmed to Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
Less than three hours later, another attack in eastern Kabul injured and MP and five others.<\/p>\n
A security official said a magnetic bomb planted in the vehicle of MP Ataullah Faizani was detonated in the Chel Siton area. The official said Faizani and five others were injured.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Qais Azimy, reporting from Kabul, said after the first attack that “Afghan police told us they have reports that this kind of attack could happen again”.<\/p>\n
The bus was carrying Nepalese guards, according to a witness, who also reported more than two dozen ambulances at the scene.<\/p>\n
It was the first attack in Kabul since the start of holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 6.<\/p>\n
“Kabul had been quite peaceful during the first two weeks of Ramadan,” said our correspondent.<\/p>\n
“But this is not the first such attack. Most of the time, the target they [the Taliban] take shows they have good intelligence and capability,” he added. “They want to show they can attack any target they want.”<\/p>\n
The last attack in the Afghan capital on April 19 left 64 dead and more than 340 wounded.<\/p>\n
That attack was claimed by the Taliban, which has fought the Western-backed Kabul government since the group were ousted from power by a US-led invasion in late 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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