Indian embassy was target of Kabul bomb: Indian diplomat

KABUL: The Indian embassy was the target of a massive bomb blast in central Kabul on Thursday, a senior Indian diplomat said.

The diplomat said the blast took place outside the wall of the embassy on Interior Ministry Road in central Kabul's heavily fortified diplomatic district.

Asked if he believed the Indian Embassy was the target of what appears to have been a suicide car bomb attack, the Indian diplomat said: "Precisely."

Speaking on condition of anonymity he said that there were no casualties in the embassy.

But he said glass windows and doors inside the building were damaged, as was a watch tower on its perimeter wall.

The Indian Embassy was attacked in July last year, with the loss of 60 lives, in what remains the deadliest such attack in the Afghan capital.