KABUL, Oct 18: A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of vehicles on Friday near a heavily fortified private residential compound used by hundreds of foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul, killing two passers-by, Afghan officials said.

Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said a suicide car bomber attacked two vehicles used “by foreigners” near the Green Village Compound. There were no reports that the people in the vehicles were injured.

A police official said two civilians passing by the site of the explosion were killed by the blast.

Kabul police chief Gen Mohammad Zahir said that the Green Village was the intended target of the attack.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the car bombing and also said Green Village was the intended target of the attacker.

The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed that a car bomb attack had occurred in Kabul and that “there was one enemy killed as a result of the attack”. “We have no operational reports of Isaf personnel fatalities,” it said in a statement.—AP