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Suicide bomber near Kabul airport, casualties feared - Afghan officials


    KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up on a road near Kabul airport, with some people killed among multiple casualties, officials in the Afghan capital said on Monday, barely two weeks after a major Taliban assault in the city.

    A police officer at the scene said a suicide bomber walked up to a pickup truck and detonated explosives he was wearing and that an unspecified number of people had been killed and wounded.

    Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said investigators were at the scene.

    The suicide bombing near Kabul airport followed a series of attacks this month claimed by Taliban insurgents, including an assault on a Spanish embassy guesthouse in the capital that began on Dec. 11 and a suicide bombing near Bagram air base that killed six American troops last week.

    (Reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Editing by Paul Tait)