A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a military training centre in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding six, police and security officials said.
One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attacker detonated his explosives after being prevented from entering the Marshal Fahim National Defense University, to the west of Kabul.
A suicide blast just went off near Afghanistan's top military training center in capital Kabul, killing at least six people. The blast happened near Marshal Fahim National Defense University when cadets, who were the likely targets were leaving campus . https://t.co/DpcB5YhMU1
— Mohammed Harun Arsalai (@ArsalaiM) May 30, 2019
The explosion occurred as cadets were leaving the college, which is one of Afghanistan's main officer training academies.
Suicide bomb blast kills six in Afghanistan https://t.co/QHoujGe6ym pic.twitter.com/gvuLTekX9g
— Times of lsIamabad (@TimesofIslambad) May 30, 2019
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came as Taliban representatives met senior Afghan politicians in Moscow as part of efforts to reach a settlement to end the 18-year-long conflict.