Suspected bomb defused in Kabul

International bomb disposal experts in the Afghan capital, Kabul, have exploded a device left outside a United Nations building in the city centre.

No one was hurt in the incident.

Members of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (Isaf) sealed off the area where security guards had noticed a suspicious device that resembled a child's toy car with protruding wires.

A spokesman for Isaf, Major Gordon MacKenzie, said the size of the controlled explosion indicated that the toy may well have been a bomb.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service