Several killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul

A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle launched his machine against a minibus security forces, said, Wednesday, January 12, the Afghan Ministry of Interior. Four dead and eight injured have been identified, the ministry stressed however that this initial assessment should increase. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack by the voice of their spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid.

Attacks in the Afghan capital have been relatively infrequent last year, especially since the installation of security checkpoints around the city on the occasion of parliamentary elections in September. The last attack in the Afghan capital on 4 January, when a policeman was killed and three others injured by the explosion of a roadside bomb as the first attempt to defuse the city center.

On 19 December, two suicide bombers attacked an Afghan army bus in the capital, killing five soldiers. Suicide bombings and roadside bombs are the favorite weapons of the Taliban rebels fighting the government and its allied international forces since the latter drove the Taliban from power in late 2001.

The attack occurred Wednesday shortly after the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Kabul, where he said the U.S. was not in Afghanistan to "govern", but they would remain there beyond the theoretical limit of 2014 if the Afghans wanted. Last year, according to Afghan government figures, 1,292 police and 821 Afghan soldiers were killed.

The UN estimates that for 2412 their share civilians have died over the last ten months of the year, an increase of 20% compared to 2009. The government also ensures that 5,225 insurgents were killed last year. Finally, 711 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan, according to www. icasualties.

com, which routinely records deaths announced by officials, against 521 in 2009

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