Suicide car bomb near Kabul airport kills 3

A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the international airport in Afghanistan's capital on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 18 in an attack that appears to have targeted vehicles of the European Union police training mission, Miami Herald quoted officials as saying.

A spokeswoman for EUPOL, Sari Haukka-Konu, said that one non-mission member who was traveling in an EUPOL vehicle had been killed. She had no details on the nationality or identity of the deceased.

"All mission members who were in the vehicle are in a safe place and their injuries are not believed to be fatal," she told The Associated Press. "A non-EUPOL person inside the vehicle is deceased."

Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said two Afghan women were killed in the blast. He described them as "passers-by."

Of the 18 wounded, he said eight were women and three were children. He said three foreigners had been wounded. EUPOL's website said three of its personnel had sustained non-fatal injuries.

The car bomb was detonated near the office of the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority, which is a few hundred meters (yards) from the airport terminal, early Sunday morning, said Najib Danish, the deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry.