At least seven people were killed and eight others were wounded in a suicide attack at Kandahar international airport.

At least seven people were killed and eight others were wounded in a suicide attack at Kandahar international airport.

"Seven civilians, including two children, were killed in today's suicide attack. Eight civilians including two children and one woman have been injured in the blast," provincial spokesman, Zalmay Ayobi said.

Witnesses said that pools of blood and body parts were scattered around the burned-out wreckage of six vehicles at the scene of the attack.

Two of the vehicles belonged to NATO special forces, according to witnesses, but a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force said there were no ISAF casualties and he had no information that military vehicles were involved.

Spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP the target was "the bullet-proof vehicles of foreign forces".
The army commander for southern Afghanistan, General Hamid Wardak, said the attack was "on foreign special forces at the entrance gate of Kandahar international airport".

For its part, Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the attack.