Kabul: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a Western-style grocery store in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least nine people.
Kabul Police Chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi told that three foreign women and one child, whose nationality was not known, were among the dead.
He added that six others were while two of them were in critical condition.
The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the attack was against a US-based security contractor.
In a text message sent to reporters, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid wrote: “It was an attack on the chief of Blackwater.”
It may be mentioned here that Blackwater Worldwide, based in North Carolina in the US, is now called Xe Services.
Sources in the interior ministry claimed that a suicide bomber carried out the attack.
Attacks in the Afghan capital have declined in recent months and the explosion in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, considered one of the safest in the city, alarmed diplomats and other members of the international community.
The district is home to many foreigners and wealthy Afghans, many of whom shop at the grocery store.
Another member of the criminal investigation unit, said the suicide bomber threw at least one grenade and fired shots, prompting customers to run to another area of the store, before blowing himself up.
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