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40 dead in Indian embassy blast in Afghan capital
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-07 23:26

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 40 people in the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said.


Armed Afghan police stand guard at the Indian Embassy entrance gate in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 7, 2008. A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing some 40 people in the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's capital this year, officials said. [Agencies]
The massive explosion detonated by a suicide bomber damaged two embassy vehicles entering the compound, near where dozens of Afghan men line up every morning to apply for visas.

President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombing and said it was carried out by militants trying to rupture the friendship between Afghanistan and India.

The Afghan Interior Ministry hinted that the attack was carried out with help from Pakistan's intelligence service, saying that "terrorists have carried out this attack in coordination and consultation with some of the active intelligence circles in the region." The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, said Pakistan condemned the attack and terrorism in all forms.

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