Blast rocks Kabul

Published April 14, 2003

KABUL, April 13: A suspected landmine explosion rocked east Kabul late on Sunday night, prompting initial fears of an attack on the US embassy a kilometre away.

The blast at 11:08 pm (1838 GMT) left a two-metre (six feet) crater at the side of the city-bound lane of the Kabul-Jalalabad road in Yakatut district about five kilometres out of Kabul.—AFP

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