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6 killed in Kabul suicide bomb blast

Six people, including five security officers, were killed on Sunday in a suicide bomb blast in a northeastern area of the Afghan capital city, police here said.

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Six people, including five security officers, were killed on Sunday in a suicide bomb blast in a northeastern area of the Afghan capital city, police here said.

The explosion, occurring around 5:40 p.m. local time, destroyeda car used by the security team and killed five officers and a suspected terrorist, Kabul police chief Baba Jan told reporters onthe spot.

Police corned off the area about 300 meter west of the Kabul airport, where wreckage of a white Toyota car and parts of human body were seen lying on the street.

Jamal, a security chief of the Afghan intelligence service, wasamong the victims of the attack, the official said.

Police said Jamal's team on Sunday evening arrested the suspected terrorist and tried to put him into their car when the man ignited the explosive on his body.

He said that the identity of the terrorist was not yet known aspolice was investigating the case, but hinted that he was a foreigner.

It was believed that the suicide bomber was a member of al-Qaeda network, which has joined hands with Afghanistan's ousted Taliban movement in an insurgency against the US-backed government.

At least five rockets hit the Afghan capital city in last two weeks since a constitutional Loya Jirga, or grand assembly, openedhere to ratify the country's new constitution, but causing no casualties.

The fugitive Taliban movement has denounced the assembly as a drama staged by "US occupiers" and vowed to disrupt it.

Earlier on Thursday, a bomb exploded near the presidential palace in downtown Kabul, damaging part of a United Nations guesthouse where UN workers for the country's general elections in2004 stayed. No one injured in the attack.

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