LATEST: Emerging reports suggest 18 people have been killed and 90 wounded in bombings at the funeral of a protester killed in Kabul.

A SUICIDE attack killed dozens of Shi’ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine, in the worst sectarian violence Afghanistan has seen since the fall of the Taliban.

A ROAD crash that sparked a deadly riot in the Afghan capital occurred because a military truck lost its brakes as it was coming down a hill and ploughed into a line of cars, the US military said yesterday.

Afghan officials were today playing down a deadly shooting outside the American embassy in Kabul in which US Marines killed at least three Afghan troops.