Afghan suicide bomb attack
September 18, 2012Advertisement
A female suicide bomber killed 12 people in an attack on a minibus near Kabul airport on Tuesday. The Afghan insurgent group Hezb-e-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack, whose victims included foreigners, according to the faction's spokesman.
"A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video," spokesman Zubair Sediqqi told Reuters.
Initial reports did not indicate the victims' nationalities.
Tuesday's attack near the Afghan capital follows a string of violent protests across the Muslim world against the anti-Islam video. A trailer of the US-made film circulated online portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer, homosexual and a child abuser.
kms/gb (dpa, AFP, Reuters)