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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A car bombing Saturday near the NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed at least seven people and injured more than 100, officials say.
The Los Angeles Times reported the bombing about 30 yards from the heavily fortified NATO site meant insurgents brought an estimated payload of nearly 600 pounds of explosives through multiple security checkpoints.
An unknown number of insurgents participated in the deadly attack, which also was near the U.S. Embassy.
"It was a suicide bombing carried out in a car right in front of" the NATO-led peacekeeping force, the BBC reported Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, as saying at the scene.
The last major attack in Kabul came in February, when eight Taliban militants attacked three government buildings simultaneously, killing 20 people and the eight attackers.
And in July 2008, the BBC reported, a car bomb killed more than 50 Afghans and two diplomats outside the Indian Embassy.
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