Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Sunday, August 29, 2021

Fresh blast heard in Kabul after US warnings of potential terror attack

By AFP 29 August 2021, 3:59 pm Edit

Taliban fighters patrol along a street in Kabul on August 29, 2021, as suicide bomb threats hung over the final phase of the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP)

KABUL, Afghanistan — A loud blast was heard in the Afghan capital Kabul today by AFP journalists, hours after US officials warned of the possibility of a terror attack.

A security official from the recently deposed government tells AFP it was a rocket that “initial information shows hit a house.”