Doctors killed in Afghan attack

A ROADSIDE bomb tore through a vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday, killing at least five people, three of them doctors, police said.

The doctors worked at Puli Charkhi prison, Kabul’s main penitentiary, and were killed as they were on the way to their office in the city’s Doghabad neighbourhood. It was not immediately clear if the doctors were targeted in the attack.

The car, a white sedan, did not appear to have any markings on it that indicated that its passengers were medical workers. The vehicle was almost completely destroyed in the blast.

Farhad Bayani, a spokesman for the office of the prison administration, said that four prison staff were killed in the blast, including the three doctors and their driver.

The identity of the fifth person killed was not immediately known. No-one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which damaged nearby buildings and shops.