DHAKA: At least 14 Nepalese security guards have been killed after a suicide bomber hit a minibus in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, along the main road to the eastern city of Jalalabad.

The attacker on Monday was on foot, police said, as they reported multiple casualties among the bus passengers who were “employees of a foreign compound”.

The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, a spokesman for the group confirmed to Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera’s Qais Azimy, reporting from Kabul, said that “Afghan police told us they have reports that this kind of attack could happen again”.

The bus was carrying Nepalese guards, according to a witness, who also reported more than two dozen ambulances at the scene.

It is the first attack in Kabul since the start of holy fasting month of Ramadan on June 6.

BDST: 1042 HRS, JUN 20, 2016
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