A bomb hidden in an ambulance has killed at least 17 people and wounded about 110 at a police checkpoint in the Afghan capital Kabul in an area near foreign embassies and government buildings.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the blast, a week after it claimed an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in which more than 20 people were killed.
"It is a massacre," said Dejan Panic co-ordinator in Afghanistan for the Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a nearby trauma hospital.
![Uniformed and plainclothed Afghan security forces patrol the site of a deadly suicide attack in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/JG3FJA4TPLNZHVAWQO3A6SO3XM.jpg?auth=43234181f2e2bc41b9933cdfa6d78d7478f9e4d5fc42e3100570d92c52f6c5ce&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
In a message on Twitter, the group said more than 50 wounded had been brought in to that hospital alone.