At least four dead in Kabul suicide blast

Afghan security forces run on the roof of the Kabul traffic police headquarters as it is attacked by insurgents in Kabul January 21, 2013. (File photo: Reuters)

      

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Wednesday, 2 April 2014

A suicide bomber has killed at least four people on Wednesday outside the Afghan interior ministry building in the center of Kabul, a government spokesman said.
The blast also wounded several police officers.
The attack comes three days before Afghanistan’s elections in which the country will choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai and to decide the make-up of 34 provincial councils.
The election is seen as a benchmark of progress since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001. Eight candidates are running in the April 5 presidential election, with a second round run-off between the two leading contenders expected in late May.