Bomb blast outside Indian embassy in Kabul
Updated
![The toll from the blast makes it the biggest bomb attack since the fall fo the Taliban in 2001. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/base/afghan_indiablast_rtr_070708.jpg "The toll from the blast makes it the biggest bomb attack since the fall fo the Taliban in 2001. [Reuters]")
The toll from the blast makes it the biggest bomb attack since the fall fo the Taliban in 2001. [Reuters]
A suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital has killed more than 41 people, many of them civilians waiting to collect visas.
An interior ministry spokesman says initial reports indicate that about 41 people, mostly civilians who had come to get visas, had been killed.
This toll makes it the biggest bomb attack in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
The Indonesian embassy was also badly damaged in the powerful blast.
Officials in Jakarta says two Indonesian diplomats are among those wounded.
Taliban insurgents have vowed to step up their campaign of suicide bombings this year to overthrow the pro-Western Afghan government and drive out foreign forces.
