A car bomb detonated in the Afghan capital of Kabul during Wednesday’s morning commute, killing seven people and wounding at least seven more, officials said.
The spokesman for the interior ministry, Nasrat Rahimi, said the bomb had gone off in a neighbourhood which is near the interior ministry and north of Kabul airport.
He said the dead were all civilians.
Rahimi added that the target of the attack was not immediately clear and that an investigation was underway at the scene.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but both the Taliban and Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are active in the capital and have claimed earlier attacks in Kabul.
The blast came one day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced that Kabul would release three high-ranking Taliban prisoners in an apparent prisoner swap with Western hostages who were kidnapped by the insurgents in 2016.
