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Police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said that another 33 people
had been injured in the blast.
Witnesses had told Reuters the powerful explosion was heard in a
northern Kabul neighbourhood, shattering windows in nearby
buildings.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast and
authorities did not publicly assign blame.
The Taliban say they are restoring security to the war-torn
country, which has seen an overall drop in violence since the
group took over and defeated a U.S.-backed government a year
ago. However, several large attacks, some claimed by Islamic
State, have taken place in urban centres in recent months.
Emergency Hospital, a facility run by an Italian NGO that
specialises in treating victims of war, said in a statement it
had admitted 27 people, including five children, who had been
wounded in the blasts. Two people had arrived dead and one
patient died in the emergency room, Emergency's Afghanistan
country director Stefano Sozza said.
In August the hospital had treated 80 patients from six
different mass casualty events, which includes major incidents
such as blasts and mass shootings.
"The country is suffering the consequences of a very long
conflict that has undermined its future," Sozza said.
(Reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar; Writing by Charlotte
Greenfield; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Peter Graff)
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