A suicide car bomber and Taliban militants disguised in Burqas attacked a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing seven people, officials and witnesses said. At least 17 people were also wounded in the assault, most of them Afghan children on their way to school, the Interior Ministry was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. The attack started around 6 a.m. in eastern Kabul with a series of explosions and gunfire. The suicide car bomb that exploded near Jalalabad road - one of the main thoroughfares out of the city - was among the first blasts in Wednesday's attack, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. A station wagon that was driving past was caught up in the explosion and four people inside were killed, Sediqi said. A passer-by and a Nepalese security guard were also killed, said Kabul Deputy Police Chief Daoud Amin. The seventh death was not identified.
