Five dead after suicide bomber targets convoy in Kabul

A suicide attack in Kabul has claimed at least five lives after a foreign convoy was targeted. 

The Afghan interior ministry said in a statement that the dead included four Afghans and one British citizen. 

Twenty others were wounded in the attack in the Afghan capital, which is understood to have occurred when the bomber rode up to the convoy on a motorcycle before detonating. 

The British embassy in Kabul confirmed that one of their vehicles was hit in the attack, adding that there were no diplomats in the vehicle and that several staff members were being treated for injuries. 

The explosion could be heard across Kabul and a plume of smoke rose high into the air above the attack site on Jalalabad Road, a main route that houses many foreign compounds and military facilities.

The bombing is the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Kabul as the majority of foreign combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of the year after 13 years of war against the Taliban and its allies.

Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it "targeted foreign invading forces".