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A suicide bomber attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the bomber was gunned down by Taliban guards before entering the premises, but still got close enough to kill two embassy staffers.
“At 10:50 am Kabul time on Sept. 5, an unidentified militant set off an explosive device in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the consular section of the Russian embassy in Kabul,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Monday.
“As a result of the attack, two employees of the diplomatic mission were killed, and there are also Afghan citizens among the wounded,” the statement said.
Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafy Takor confirmed to Agence France-Press that the Russian embassy was the target of the attack.
