(20 Apr 2019) A suicide blast rocked Afghanistan's capital city on Saturday during a gun battle with security forces, officials said, killing at least two people a day after hopes for all-encompassing peace talks collapsed. At least six people were wounded.
Police chief Gen. Sayed Mohammad Roshandil said the bomber blew himself up outside the telecommunications ministry, clearing the way for the other attackers to enter the building and the heavily guarded government compound in central Kabul.
Wahidullah Mayar, spokesman for the public health ministry, said that at least two people killed in the attack and so far six wounded people have been evacuated to hospitals. There are three women among the wounded, he added.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Both Taliban insurgents and the Islamic State group are active in eastern Afghanistan and have previously claimed attacks in Kabul.
Taliban denied involvement in the attack happened in Kabul.
Nasart Rahimi, a spokesman for the interior ministry said that operation is ended at the ministry of Telecommunication. "The operation is ended after all attackers were shot and killed by Afghan security forces," said Rahimi.
The attack comes a day after Afghan-to-Afghan peace talks in Qatar were canceled.
It would have marked the first time that Taliban and Kabul government officials sat together to negotiate an end to the war in Afghanistan and a withdrawal of U.S. troops.
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