DHAKA: A suicide bomber and a roadside bomb have struck the convoy of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in the capital Kabul on Friday.

The Afghan Interior Ministry said this, reports the Aljazeera.

Friday’s explosions killed four civilians but left the candidate himself unharmed.

In a televised statement shortly after the attack, Abdullah said that several of his security guards had been wounded in the attack.

The interior ministry spokesman said the number of dead was likely to rise, the Associated Press news agency reported.

The assassination attempt on Abdullah came ahead of a second-round presidential election on June 14, which Taliban fighters have threatened to disrupt.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

Afghanistan is in the middle of elections to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who has ruled since the fall of the country’s Taliban government in 2001.

Abdullah fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed for an outright victory in the April first round and will face former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani in the run-off.

“We condemn the attack on respected presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah,” Ghani said on Twitter.

BDST: 2056 HRS, JUNE 6, 2014