Kabul: At least 12 people including seven foreigners were killed in a suicide attack on a minibus in the Afghan capital on Tuesday.
“A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video,” said Zubair Sediqqi, a spokesman for the militant faction, which does not usually carry out such attacks.
The attack near Kabul airport underscored growing anger in Afghanistan over the film, which has enraged much of the Muslim world and led to the killing last week of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
The suicide attack was the first in Kabul involving a woman and the foreigners killed were mostly Russian and South African pilots working for an international courier company, senior police sources said.
Hezb-e-Islami, which means Islamic Party, has claimed the responsibility of the attack saying he blast was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
“The target was a minivan carrying employees of a foreign company who had a contract with Americans. The seven foreigners killed were Russians and South Africans,” said General Mohammmad Dawod Amin, a deputy for Kabul’s police chief.
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