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Stars and Stripes
Published: February 26, 2015
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide attack struck a NATO coalition convoy in downtown Kabul on Thursday, killing two people.
At about 8:30 a.m., a suicide bomber in a Toyota Corolla attacked two vehicles belonging to Turkish members of the NATO-led Resolute Support mission, Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.
The blast killed at least one Turkish individual and one Afghan civilian bystander, as well as the attacker, he said.
Coalition officials confirmed it was one of their convoys but did not release any information on casualties.
The attack occurred deep in the heart of Kabul in an area that hosts the embassies of Turkey and Iran, among other government buildings.
Some local media reported that the recently appointed NATO civilian representative to Afghanistan, Ismail Aramaz, was the target of the attack. But NATO spokesman Chris Chambers told Stars and Stripes that Aramaz was at his residence, not in the vehicles, at the time of the blast.
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