Another Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan Leaves Dozens Dead

A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing 12 people in an attack a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad.


Nine foreigners and three Afghans lost their lives, the Interior Ministry told CBS News without disclosing the nationalities of the foreign victims.

The criminal director for the Kabul police department, Mohammad Zahir, said 10 Afghan bystanders were wounded.

Haroon Zarghoon, a spokesman for the Islamist militant group Hizb-i-Islami, claimed responsibility for the dawn attack in an email to The Associated Press. He said it was carried out by a 22-year-old woman named Fatima. It was the first reported suicide car bombing ever to be carried out by a woman in Afghanistan.