Kabul suicide attack: 7 injured
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide grenade attack in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday injured seven people, including three international peacekeepers.
Three blasts shook a shopping area in downtown Kabul, causing a number of casualties, according to an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) official.
"One person was killed who is believed to have been the attacker," Lt. Colonel Patrick Poulain, spokesman at ISAF headquarters in the Kabul, told Reuters.
Poulain said three locals, a foreign woman, and three ISAF soldiers were injured.
"The Taliban takes responsibility for the suicide attack in Kabul. This was an Afghan Taliban Mujahadid (holy warrior), and we plan more attacks," Taliban spokesman Mullah Latifullah Hakimi told Reuters by satellite telephone.
The attacker exploded hand grenades strapped to his waist, in Chicken Street in Afghanistan's capital.
Journalist Kitty Logan told CNN said the explosions came outside a carpet shop in a shopping area popular with international shoppers.
Logan said that violence had been expected during the recent election period but that it had been quiet then -- possibly because of the tight security in force.
Security in the capital had lightened since then, making attacks more possible, she added.
In counting after the national elections two weeks ago, with 81 percent of the total vote counted, President Hamid Karzai is leading with 3,574,203 votes, 54.6 percent of the total cast.
