Suicide attack on Indian embassy kills 41 in Afghanistan

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KABUL (AFP) — A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the Indian embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding nearly 150 others in the deadliest attack here since the 2001 fall of the Taliban, officials said.

The blast in the heart of the city scattered human flesh and severed limbs in front of the embassy compound, tearing down an outside security office and part of a wall. Charred and bloodied bodies littered a road outside.

"The toll of casualties we have so far is 41 martyred and 147 wounded. Among those killed are six policemen," Afghan interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP. Many of the dead were Afghans collecting Indian visas.

The Indian embassy's military attache and a political counsellor were killed along...