DHAKA: At least seven people have been killed and more than 100 injured by a powerful car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul early on Friday morning, said health officials.

Police say that the bomb went off in the Shah Shahid area of the city, BBC reported.

Injured people including children were rushed to hospital for treatment. Some bodies are feared buried in the wreckage of shops and businesses.

A security source told Reuters that the target was probably an army compound.

There has so far been no claim of responsibility for the explosion, which rocked the centre of the capital. However the Taliban will be the main suspects.

Large truck bombs are unusual in the centre of Kabul are unusual, in part because police do not allow lorries to enter the city during daytime.

But smaller bombs and suicide attacks have become almost a weekly occurrence in the heavily fortified city.

On Thursday at least six people, including three policemen, were killed in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan.

BDST: 0840 HRS, AUG 7, 2015
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