Suicide bombing in Kabul kills at least 95, wounds 158, officials say

By Washington Post Today at 12:04 p.m.
A shopkeeper surveys the destruction in the immediate vicinity of a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed at least 95 people, Jan. 27, 2018. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, a bomb placed in an ambulance that exploded on a guarded street near embassies and official buildings; hospitals were overwhelmed by the number of wounded. (Andrew Quilty/The New York Times Copyright 2018 / New York Times)

KABUL - A suicide bomber detonated an ambulance packed with explosives outside a hospital in central Kabul on Saturday morning, officials said, killing at least 95 people and wounding 158. It was the third major attack in Afghanistan in the past week and one of the deadliest in the shell-shocked capital.

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