Kabul ambulance bomb toll hits 103, hundreds wounded: Officials

The death toll from a devastating suicide bomb blast in Kabul has risen to 103 with hundreds more wounded, officials said today, making it the worst attack in the Afghan capital in months.

Afghan security personnel walk past the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul (File | AP)

KABUL: The death toll from a devastating suicide bomb blast in Kabul has risen to 103 with hundreds more wounded, officials said today, making it the worst attack in the Afghan capital in months.

"Unfortunately a number of wounded people have died in hospital. The number of martyrs is now 103," interior minister Wais Barmak told reporters, adding that another 235 were wounded.

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