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Taliban Attacks Indian Embassy In Kabul

October 08 2009

Afghanistan

A Taliban suicide bomber blew up a car near the Indian Embassy in Kabul Thursday morning, the Voice of America News reports.

The blast tore through a market across the street from the diplomatic compound, but left the embassy relatively undamaged.

Twelve people were killed and more than 80 injured, reported the Press Trust of India.

No one in the embassy was killed, but three members of India's Indo-Tibetan Border Police were injured by shrapnel from the explosion, security...

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