TIWN
Kabul, Dec 14 (TIWN) At least two people were killed and two others injured in a bomb blast that targeted the vehicle of an Afghan MP in Kabul on Sunday, police in the capital city confirmed.
The incident happened at about 7:50 a.m. local time after a sticky bomb attached to a Land Cruiser-type vehicle was detonated near Hotel-e-Parwan locality, Khair Khana Mina area, Police District 15, north of the capital. "Two people were killed and two others wounded in the blast," Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz told Xinhua. The blast sent a column of thick smoke into the sky and triggered panic. A security source said the vehicle belonging to MP Mohammad Tawfiq Wahdat caught fire following the explosion. He said the brother of Wahdat and one other person were wounded but the lawmaker was not in the vehicle which was driving along the lane near a mosque when the attack happened.
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