Police foil truck bomber in Kabul
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Afghan police seized a lorry packed with explosives hidden under boxes of tomatoes in Kabul, officials said yesterday, averting a potentially deadly blast in the capital months after a massive truck bomb killed and wounded hundreds.
Police shot and wounded the driver of the vehicle carrying 30 yellow and orange plastic containers filled with explosive material and two bombs weighing 100 kilograms each after he failed to stop at a security checkpoint late Saturday, the interior ministry said.
“The driver wanted to flee with the truck from a police checkpoint but the police shot him. The driver was wounded and the truck stopped,” the ministry said in a statement.
A Western security source said that each 20-liter drum contained ammonium nitrate, which is also used to make fertilizer. The containers were connected by yellow electric cables, photographs showed.
The only thing missing was the device to detonate the explosives, he said.
Security in the Afghan capital has been ramped up since May 31 when a massive truck bomb ripped through the city’s diplomatic quarter, killing about 150 and wounding around 400 people, mostly civilians.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack — the deadliest in Kabul since 2001 — that Western officials say was caused by more than 1,500kg of explosives packed in a sewage truck.
The government has blamed the Taliban-allied Haqqani Network for the bombing.
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