DHAKA: One British citizen was among five people killed in Thursday’s suicide attack on a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital.

The interior ministry said in a statement, reports The Times of India.

The other four killed in the blast were Afghans, the statement said.

The explosion wounded 33 people.

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle struck the British embassy vehicle in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.

The Afghan Taliban, ousted from power by a US-led coalition in 2001, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest in a wave of bombings to hit Kabul as the majority of foreign combat troops prepare to withdraw from the country by the end of the year.
BDST: 1901 HRS, NOV 27, 2014