Suicide attack kills 6 MoD personnel in Kabul

At least six personnel of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) were killed and 17 others were injured in a suicide attack on Saturday in the Afghani capital Kabul, said police.
The spokesman for Kabul's Police Chief, Hashmat Stanekzai, said that the suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a bus carrying the MoD employees near Pul-e-Artal locality of Kabul. He confirmed that all the dead were MoD employees adding that civilians were also among the injured.
Dr. Abdul Kabir Amiri, head of Kabul hospitals at the Ministry of Public Health, confirmed that 17 people, most of them civilians had been evacuated to the hospital. Interior Ministry official Col. Humayun Aini confirmed the MoD vehicle caught fire as a result of the bombing but did not give the casualty figures. According to some local media reports, around eleven people were killed in the attack that burnt the bus completely.
Earlier on today, armed insurgents killed the chief secretary of Supreme Court, Atiqullah Raoufi in Kabul. The increase in insurgent attacks has come at a time when most foreign combat troops are scheduled to leave the country this month handing over the overall security control to Afghan forces.