Five killed, 12 wounded in suicide blast in front of Marshal Fahim Military Academy in Afghanistan's Kabul; responsibility for attack yet to be claimed

Kabul: A suicide bomber killed five people near a military academy in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, the interior ministry said. [caption id=“attachment_4394229” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. Reuters[/caption] There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack near the entrance to the government-run defence university, the Marshal Fahim Military Academy, at the beginning of the morning rush hour. “Five including three military personnel and two civilians were killed,” interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi told Reuters, adding that 12 people were wounded, five of them civilians. The academy, modelled after European war colleges to train Afghanistan cadets, has been the scene of several attacks in the past, including an Islamic State-claimed assault last May. Militant attacks on the Afghan and US-led security forces have continued over recent months even as the United States and Taliban militants pursue talks to finalise a peace pact.