Afghanistan Bombings: Dozens Killed across the Country
Local Editor
Dozens of people were killed in a series of militant attacks on Tuesday throughout Afghanistan.
Up to 30 people were killed and 80 wounded in twin bombings near the parliament in the capital, Kabul.
Blasts at the governor's guesthouse in Kandahar killed at least 11 and injured 14 including the UAE ambassador.
Earlier, in Helmand province a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a guesthouse used by an intelligence official, killing at least seven people.
The Kabul blasts took place during rush hour as staff were leaving the parliament complex.
The Taliban said they were responsible for the twin bomb attacks in the center of the city.
"We planned this attack for quite some time and the plan was to target some senior officers of the intelligence agency," a Taliban spokesman was reported as saying.
The attack is the latest in a series carried out by the Taliban over the past year. Most of the victims on Tuesday are said to be civilians, including parliament staff.
President Ashraf Ghani vowed that all those behind the criminal attacks would be caught.
"The Taliban shamelessly claim credit for the attack on civilians and they're proud of it," he said in a statement.
Afghan sources said a district head of the National Directorate of Security - Afghanistan's main intelligence agency - was among the dead.
An MP from western Herat province, Rahima Jami, was said to have been injured.
The UAE foreign ministry called it a "heinous terrorist attack" in which ambassador Juma Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaabi "and a number of Emirati diplomats" were wounded.
The ambassador and other dignitaries were attending a dinner party when the attack happened.
Earlier, in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a guesthouse used by an intelligence official, killing at least seven people and wounding six others.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
