KABUL (Reuters) - An explosion tore through a supermarket popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital Kabul Friday, killing at least three people and wounding three more, Reuters witnesses said.
The blast scattered debris across the street at the "Finest" supermarket several hundred yards from the British embassy and other diplomatic residences in Kabul.
A Reuters cameraman saw three dead bodies at the scene, including two women. Another three people were wounded, including a woman who appeared to be a foreigner. Fire blazed inside the building located on a busy roundabout.
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion.
Violence in Afghanistan is at its worst level since the overthrow of the Taliban by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001 with record casualties on all sides of the conflict and a raging insurgency that has shown little sign of abating.
A "ring of steel" was erected around the capital before parliament elections last September, but this has not deterred militant attacks.
At least four people were killed when a suicide attacker rammed his motorcycle into a bus carrying security forces in Kabul earlier this month.
More than 30 people were also wounded in the attack, the third targeting security forces in the capital in less than a month.
(Reporting by Matt Robinson and Reuters Television, Writing by editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
