Afghanistan's Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak announced on Sunday afternoon at a joint security press conference that the death tollfollowing Saturday’s deadly bombing in Kabul was now at 103 and 235 were wounded, TOLO News reported.

He said many police officers were among the dead but did not give details. But he did say that among the wounded were 30 police officers.

“Many policemen were also killed,” he said.

The explosion happened just before 1pm on Saturday when an explosive-laden ambulance was detonated in a busy area, which is close to Kabul’s old building of the Ministry of Interior.

“There had been two ambulances involved. The first vehicle was stopped by police but both vehicles managed to get throughthe checkpoint. The one ambulance was only an escort and then left. The second ambulance was detonated,” Barmak said at a joint press conference with Defence

Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) chiefMasoom Stanekzai.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for both the hotel attack and Saturday’s ambulance bombing.