The car bomb went off at a police checkpoint in Kabul on Saturday in an area near foreign embassies and government buildings, a week after a deadly attack on the Intercontinental Hotel.
A spokesman from the public health ministry said 17 people have been killed and 110 people have been wounded in the blast, which came a week after a deadly attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in the city.
Mirwais Yasini, a member of parliament who was nearby when the explosion occurred, said the ambulance approached the checkpoint, close to an office of the High Peace Council and a number of foreign embassies, and blew up.
A coordinator in Afghanistan for the Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a nearby trauma hospital, said: “It is a massacre”.
He said a number of people were lying on the ground.
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A plume of grey smoke rose from the blast area in the city centre and buildings hundreds of metres away were shaken by the force of the explosion.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, a week after it claimed an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in which more than 20 people were killed.
People helped walking wounded away as ambulances with sirens wailing inched their way through the traffic-clogged streets of the city centre.
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