KABUL, Sept 17: Afghan police said on Sunday they had arrested four men suspected of planning bombings and suicide attacks in Kabul for the Taliban. Mortars and bomb-making materials were found with the four, the police said.

The men were captured on Saturday in a house in the city’s suburbs and had confessed, the city’s police criminal investigation chief Ali Shah Paktiawal said.

“They were planning bomb attacks, organising suicide blasts and other sabotage activities,” he said. “They have confessed to their crimes and intention to carry out attacks here.”

The suspects were shown on local television with their weapons.

The US-led coalition said last week a cell planning suicide bombings was operating in Kabul.

There have been three suicide blasts in the city this month, killing three foreign soldiers and nearly 20 Afghans.

The latest was on Sunday and wounded three coalition soldiers and two Afghans, according to the coalition and police.

In another suicide attack on Sunday, a Pakistani civilian worker was killed and 11 people including three foreign soldiers wounded in a blast in the southern city of Kandahar.—AFP