Taliban Claim Responsibility for Deadly Bombings in Afghan Capital<br />Officials said a bomb went off at a neighborhood police headquarters in southwestern Kabul,<br />and a second explosion was heard a short time later on the eastern side, near the offices of the National Directorate of Security, the intelligence agency.<br />By ROD NORDLAND and ZAHRA NADERMARCH 1, 2017<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban set off two explosions in quick succession in the capital on<br />Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 50 more, according to Afghan officials.<br />Sediq Seddiqi, the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior, said in a Twitter post<br />that two terrorists had been killed, and five security force members injured.<br />It was the first insurgent bombing in Kabul since Feb. 7, when a suicide bomber<br />killed more than a dozen people outside the offices of the Supreme Court.
