Associated Press
Sunday, May 8, 2005

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 7 -- An explosion rocked an Internet cafe in the Afghan capital Saturday, killing two Afghans, police said. Officials were investigating whether the blast was caused by a suicide attacker.

Five people were injured in the explosion at the Park Net Cafe in Kabul's upscale Shahr-e Naw district, a hangout also popular with foreigners, said Gen. Akram Khakrezwal, the Kabul police chief, adding that all the victims were Afghans.

"It was an explosion, but we still don't know if it was a suicide attack," Khakrezwal said.

Nick Downie, head of the Afghanistan NGO Security Organization, which advises aid groups and sent representatives to the scene, said one of the men who was killed was found with bloody chest injuries, suggesting a suicide attack.

Khakrezwal said police had detained a guard, the cafe owner and another manager for questioning.

Afghanistan has seen several deadly suicide attacks since the ouster of the Taliban militia in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The most recent was an attack in October, when a man carrying grenades killed an American woman and an Afghan girl on a Kabul street.