Taliban claims responsibility for Kabul suicide car bomb attack

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombing that left more than 20 people killed in western Kabul on Monday.

Tolo News, however, reported that the Taliban was targeting a bus carrying staff from an intelligence unit in the the vicinity of the 3rd police district of the city.

According to reports, the explosion occurred after a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in Kabul's Gulaee Dawa Khana near the house of Mohammad Mohaqiq, the second deputy of Afghanistan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.