A coordinated double suicide bombing hit central Kabul on Monday morning, killing 25 people, including an Agence France Presse photographer and three other journalists, in an attack claimed by ISIS.
Also, at least 45 people were wounded, according to Wahid Majroh, the public health ministry's spokesman who gave the latest casualty tolls.
AFP reported that the news agency's chief photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai, was among those killed. The news agency said Marai died in a blast that was targeting a group of journalists who had rushed to the scene of the earlier suicide attack in Kabul.
A cameraman from the local TOLO TV and two journalists from 1TV, along with four policemen, were also among those killed.
The suicide attacks took place in the central Shash Darak area, which is home to the NATO headquarters and a number of embassies in Afghanistan. The second was meant to hit those rushing to the scene of the attack to help the victims of the first blast.
The local ISIS affiliate and the more firmly established Taliban carry out regular attacks around the country.
But in a statement issued via its propaganda agency Amaq on Monday, ISIS said two suicide bombers had targeted the Kabul headquarters of Afghanistan's intelligence services.
An Afghan official also said Monday that a suicide bomber targeting a NATO convoy in southern Kandahar province killed 11 children at a religious school located just by the roadside from where the explosion occurred.
Matiullah Helal, deputy spokesman for the provincial police chief, says the attack in the district of Daman also wounded 16 people, including five NATO soldiers, nine civilians and two policemen.
