BBC workers among victims in Afghanistan suicide bombing

Four BBC workers and their Afghan driver were caught up in the suicide bombing outside the Germany embassy in Kabul, the corporation has said.

The driver killed in Wednesday's attack was named as Mohammed Nazir, a father in his late thirties who had worked for the BBC for more than four years. Four journalists were injured, though their wounds were not believed to be life-threatening, the BBC said in a statement.

The huge blast killed at least 90 people and injured more than 400 after a sewage tanker filled with explosives was detonated at an intersection in the heavily guarded diplomatic quarter. Karim Haidari, the BBC bureau's manager, tweeted a picture of the colleague who lost his life in the incident.

Taliban Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said that Wednesday's explosion had "nothing to do with the Mujahedeen of Islamic Emirate," as the Taliban call themselves. His statement added that the Taliban condemn "every explosion and attack carried out against civilians, or in which civilians are harmed." Even though the organisation claim they are only waging war against the US-backed Kabul government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, most of the casualties of their attacks are civilians.

At least one journalist working for local news agency Tolo was killed, as well as a security guard at the German embassy. Several German and Japanese nationals were injured in the blast, the countries' respective security services said.

The French and German embassies were damaged by the massive bomb. Turkey and China confirmed their embassy buildings sustained large amounts of damage in the explosion, which set dozens of cars on fire and broke doors and windows up to a kilometre (half a mile) from the blast site. Local hospitals were overwhelmed by the numbers of injured people arriving in makeshift ambulances and the death toll is

expected to rise, the interior ministry said.

A statement from the Ministry of Interior Affairs said it condemned "in the strongest terms the terrorist attack" that killed so many, including women and children.