14 NATO Occupation Soldiers Killed in Taliban Afghan Attack

A Taliban car bomber exploded his car in a US-run NATO convoy, killing at least 14 people including foreign occupation forces.

A Taliban car bomber exploded his car in a US-run NATO convoy, killing at least 14 people including foreign occupation forces.

At least ten foreign forces, three civilians and a policeman were among the casualties.



The attacker detonated his Toyota Sedan car at 11:20 am (0650 GMT) in the southwest of the city, and the area was now blocked by Afghan and international forces, said police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai.

"The attack targeted an American NATO bus," said a Western military official on condition of anonymity. "There are 10 or 11 people, mostly Americans," he said, giving the death toll.



Spokesman for the interior ministry Siddiq Siddiqui said that three civilians and a policeman had also been killed but he had no information on foreign forces.



"It was a huge explosion, I saw at least ten bodies of foreign forces taken out of their capsized bus and evacuated by two helicopters," one witness told AFP news agency at the scene.



A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the force could not give further details until further information had been gathered.



For its part, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

"A suicide car bomb attack was carried out on a bus of foreign forces in the Dar-ul-Aman area of Kabul," said Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a text message sent to AFP.