French,German embassies damaged in Kabul blast:French minister

The French and German embassies were damaged by the massive bomb that ripped through Kabul's strongly fortified diplomatic quarter today, a French minister said.

"The information that I have at the moment is that there is material damage in the French embassy, there is also material damage in the Germany embassy," European affairs minister Marielle de Sarnez told Europe 1 radio.

She added she had no information on any possible casualties at the two missions.