KABUL: A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-filled car into a US embassy convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, wounding five embassy staff and guards and at least three passers-by, officials said.

The fiery attack which damaged a number of bullet-proof diplomatic vehicles was the first suicide bombing inside Kabul this year, after several deadly blasts last year blamed on Taliban insurgents.

A “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device” struck a US embassy convoy of civilian vehicles on a road heading to the eastern city of Jalalabad, the embassy said in a statement.

“There were several injuries, including one American who was evacuated and is being treated at this time in Afghanistan,” the embassy said in a statement.

US ambassador Ronald Neumann was not in the convoy.—AFP