At least 40 people dead, 140 wounded in Afghan car bombing

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber killed at least 40 people and wounded 140 in an attack Saturday in the Afghan capital Kabul, authorities said.
Nasrat Rahimi, deputy spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, said the attacker used an ambulance to get through one security checkpoint by telling police he was taking a patient to a nearby hospital.
He detonated his explosives at a second check point, Rahimi said.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack, which sent thick, dark smoke into the sky from from the site of the explosion near the government’s former Interior Ministry building.
Kabul has been the site of numerous bombing attacks claimed by the Taliban and the Islamic State group affiliate over the last year.
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