A Taliban suicide bomber killed 14 Nepalese security guards in a blast targeting their Kabul minibus, officials said, the first claimed attack in the capital since Washington expanded the US military's authority to strike the insurgents. 


The attack, which police said was carried out by a suicide bomber on foot, came shortly before 6:00 am on a main road leading east out of the capital towards the city of Jalalabad. 


"As a result 14 foreigners were killed, all Nepalese nationals," the interior ministry said in a statement, adding it "strongly condemns" the attack.

Source: NNA