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Saturday, 30 September 2006, 07:42 GMT 08:42 UK
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<h2>Suicide bomber strikes in Kabul</h2>


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<B>At least 12 people have died after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the interior ministry in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.</B>
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An interior ministry spokesman said 42 people, including two policeman, had been injured in the blast.
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The attacker detonated explosives at a busy gate outside the ministry building as staff arrived at work, police said.
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It is the latest in a number of explosions in Kabul this year, despite high security in the capital.
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Earlier, a health ministry spokesman said 54 people had been injured, but added that it was difficult to determine the numbers because casualties had been taken to several different hospitals.
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<b>Bodies recovered</b>
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<P>The explosion took place shortly before 0800 local time (0330 GMT) on a narrow dirt road where interior ministry employees queue to pass through a security gate.
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The BBC's Dan Isaacs at the scene says a man seen acting suspiciously was challenged by security officers, and blew up explosives as he tried to run away.
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"The bomber ran into the area (past the checkpoint), and the policeman took out his gun - this all happened very fast - and then the guy detonated himself," Ahmed Ramin, 18, told the Associated press.
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"We saw lots of people killed and injured on the streets."
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Policeman Laal Agha told the French news agency AFP he had seen the bodies of four of his colleagues killed in the explosion. 
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And an interior ministry official who did not want to be named told the news agency he had pulled the bodies of three shopkeepers from shops destroyed in the blast.
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<b>School nearby</b>
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<P>An American journalist who was at the scene minutes after the blast said the dead and injured were ferried away in buses and that there were children among the casualties.
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The attack took place across the road from a school, although the children were already in their lessons when the bomber struck.
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Emergency service personnel have been hosing blood from the area and sweeping away shattered glass.
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A Taleban spokesman has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
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Attacks by the militant group have been increasing in recent weeks.
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In the capital earlier this month a suicide bomber struck outside the compound housing the US embassy, killing at least 16 people, two of them American soldiers.
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