Car Bomb Targeting Lawmaker in Afghanistan Kills at Least 9 Car Bomb Targeting Lawmaker in Afghanistan Kills at Least 9 Comments Off on Car Bomb Targeting Lawmaker in Afghanistan Kills at Least 9 KABUL — In a third bomb blast in Afghanistan within a week, at least nine people, including women and children, were killed in the capital of Kabul on Dec 20. The blast from the car bomb targeted Khan Mohammad Wardak, a member of parliament, as he was traveling through the Khushal Khan neighborhood, a western suburb in Kabul. Wardak survived the attack. Security officials believe the number of casualties will increase. “Such terrorist attacks show the persistence of terrorist crimes against the people. Terrorists have an approach of destruction and killing,” tweeted Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry spokesperson Tariq Arian.