Military vehicles drive towards the site of a car bomb blast in Ghazni city, Afghanistan, May 18, 2020. Seven people were killed and 40 others wounded in a Taliban car bomb blast outside an intelligence agency military camp in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province on Monday, the provincial government said. (Photo by Sayed Mominzadah/Xinhua)
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Seven people were killed and 40 others wounded in a Taliban car bomb blast outside an intelligence agency military camp in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province on Monday, the provincial government said.
The incident occurred after a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a hijacked explosive-laden military vehicle outside a National Directorate for Security (NDS) camp at 4:40 a.m. local time, where a special unit of NDS, the country's national intelligence agency, stationed, the government said in a statement.
"As a result of the blast, seven people were martyred and 40 others wounded," the statement said, adding eight of the wounded were in critical condition.
The force of the blast smashed windowpane and glasses of houses in a 2 km radius but civilians were not hurt in the incident, according to the statement.
Taliban militants claimed the attack shortly after the incident, in the province 125 km south of the country's capital Kabul.
It is the latest in a spate of such attacks when the Afghans are observing the fasting month of Ramadan.
On Thursday, five civilians were killed and 46 people, including six soldiers, were wounded in a Taliban truck bomb blast against an army office in Gardez city, capital of neighboring Paktia province.
