Afghanistan: Suicide Bombing Targets Voter Registration

An apparent suicide attack on a voter registration center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday has wounded at least seven people, an official confirmed.



Humayon Mohtaat, head of the population census directorate, told Anadolu Agency that a registration office in the Dasht Barchi neighborhood was targeted, wounding at least seven people.



Dasht Barchi is in western Kabul, outside the protected diplomatic and governmental "green zone."



Registration began last week for long-awaited local and parliamentary elections, set for October. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has called on the Taliban to take part in the polls, but the Taliban have warned people against participation.



This is the third attack in the last week against Afghanistan's voter registration process. -