Four Nepalis killed in suicide bomb attack in Kabul

Kabul – Taliban insurgents including a suicide bomber in a truck killed four Nepalis and two other people in an attack on a foreign logistics and supply company in Kabul on Tuesday, police said, according to the news agency Reuters.

Three other employees were wounded in the attack.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the early morning attack in an area in the north of Kabul used by a number of foreign companies supplying NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Violence is escalating across Afghanistan as NATO-led combat troops prepare to leave by the end of 2014.

The attack began when one of the insurgents drove an explosives-laden truck into a vehicle bay in the compound north of Kabul airport, detonating an explosion that left a crater six metres (20 feet) deep and about 15 metres wide.