Breaking news: British embassy convoy attacked in Kabul by a suicide bomber

       The vehicle was hit by an explosion, believed to have been carried out by a bomber on a motorcycle in the country's capital Kabul, according to officials.A British embassy spokesman confirmed the attack and said some people in the vehicle were wounded, without providing further details. He added that the vehicle was not carrying any British diplomats.Kabir Amiri, the administrative head of Kabul hospitals, said that at least five Afghan civilians were killed and up to 34 wounded. Afghan Public Health Ministry spokesman Kanishka Bektash Turkistani said the wounded included five children. The attack took place in the east of the city, shaking parts of Kabul and sending a huge plume of dust nd smoke into the air. Eyewitness Mustafa Deveci told MailOnline: 'The explosion happened at around 10am. I saw 5 or 6 civilian cars blown up on the road, I couldn't tell which ones belonged to the British embassy. 'I saw the damage of the smoking cars. The explosion happened on -- it's a very busy road, it's the main road going from Afghanistan to Jalalabad, it's always full of people.'

         All the seriously injured people had already been taken to hospital when I got there, but I saw a guy sitting at the roadside with minor injuries. A woman ran up to him and asked if her relatives were all right, he told her they'd been killed. She just broke down and started crying and cursing.''She was pointing at the car in the picture I tweeted. The rest of her relatives were travelling in it. I heard they were going to a wedding in Jalalabad.' 'Foreign vehicles were targeted by a suicide attacker on a motorcycle,' Deputy Interior Minister Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi said. Earlier, a local police officer said the attacker was in a car packed with explosives.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a brief statement.