(5 Jan 2015) A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul on Monday, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others nearby.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the first against a foreign target in the Afghan capital in 2015.
According to a statement from the EUPOL (European Union Police Mission) the driver of the car packed with explosives apparently targeted a convoy of mission vehicles near its headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Kabul in the early afternoon on Monday.
"The vehicle's occupants were uninjured," EUPOL said on its Facebook page.
The mission funds and trains Afghanistan's 157,000-strong police force.
The spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Hashmat Stanekzai confirmed the casualties.
A separate explosion struck near Kabul's international airport earlier on Monday, leaving no casualties.
Kabul was hit by a high number of attacks in the last weeks of 2014, as the Taliban targeted government, military and foreign installations.
A total of six foreigners were killed in a flurry of attacks in the capital in late 2014.

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