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KABUL, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Over a dozen people were killed and injured as a car bomb rocked Shash Darak area in the Police District 9 in Kabul city on Thursday, a police source said.

The blast took place at 10:10 a.m. local time, said the source who declined to be identified. He also added that the blast happened next to a police checkpoint where the office of National Directorate of Security, the U.S. embassy and the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission located.