At least 17 people were killed and 25 wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up trying to enter a police building in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, a senior police source has told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
The area was sealed off by police as ambulances rushed to the scene of what witnesses described as a powerful blast on Monday.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said the attack happened at about 2pm local time.<\/p>\n
“The suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a civil order police building in the centre of the city,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The attack was five days before another scheduled round of peace talks in the presence of Afghan, Pakistan, Chinese and US officials.”<\/p>\n
Kabul was hit by a series of suicide attacks last month, including one that killed seven journalists from a private television station, as the Taliban stepped up its campaign against the Western-backed government.<\/p>\n
The attacks coincided with renewed efforts to revive a peace process with the armed group that stalled last year.<\/p>\n
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