Kabul attack
Afghan security forces investigate the wreckage of a vehicle used by suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan January 4, 2016. A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up close to a police checkpoint near Kabul airport on Monday but caused no other casualties, a police spokesman said. Reuters/Omar Sobhani

A suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan wounded at least 28.

A convoy with the US embassy guards was attacked on the “at the gate of Camp Baron military side of Kabul airport,” as confirmed by the Ministry of Interior. The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack near the Kabul airport on Monday. This took place hours after the suicide attack.

The explosion was the second attack on Monday. Earlier in the morning, the driver of a car refused to stop at a police checkpoint, and the car bomb exploded without injuring anyone else in the attack, NBC News reports.

According to the public health ministry in Afghanistan, at least 28 people including nine children are presently being treated in various hospitals, reports RT. It was not mentioned if the injured people included any Americans.

The suicide attacker reportedly wanted to use the explosives near the convoy but ended up detonating it at the gate to Camp Sullivan. A truck full of explosives crashed into the wall of Camp Baron, according to Kabul police spokesman Abdul Basir Mujahid.

Security officials disclosed that the vehicle in the earlier attack was also filled with explosives. While the driver blew himself up, the explosives remained untouched.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid tweeted that the second attack was supposed to attack “foreigners.” However, the relationship between the Monday attacks is still unclear.

Another suicide attack took place on Friday when a popular French restaurant in Kabul killed two and injured 18.

On Sunday evening, a group of militants occupied an empty house near the Indian Consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh Province. After 25 hours of fighting, the siege killed at least one police officer and injured nine others.

“The attackers hid themselves in that safe room, which made it too hard for the security forces to kill them,” the New York Times quoted the provincial council head Dr. Muhammad Afzal Hadeed as saying. “We don’t care as much about the length of time as about avoiding casualties.”