Terror strikes Kabul again, 40 killed, 140 injured in blast

A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 40 people and wounded about 140 at a police checkpoint in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, in an area near foreign embassies and government buildings, officials said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, a week after it claimed an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in which more than 20 people were killed.