At least 11 US citizens were reportedly injured in the attack.
A towering plume of smoke rose over the Afghan capital as emergency vehicles sped toward it. Soldiers in fatigues stood with guns drawn - the sounds of screams, blaring sirens and traffic piercing the morning sky.
Bystanders lifted wounded people from the back of cars as others hovered nearby as if in a daze, blood streaming down their faces.
Amnesty International called the attack "a horrific act of violence and a heartbreaking reminder of the toll that Afghan civilians continue to pay in a conflict where armed groups deliberately target them and the government fails to protect them".
Foreign minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Jassim Al-Thani, condemned the "appalling attack". "In the meantime, all employees are safe".
The government source said Wednesday that nothing had changed regarding the government's fundamental stance on deportations to Afghanistan, but that embassy staff had "more important things to do" than receive failed asylum seekers in the coming days.
Meanwhile, India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj shared the information that the staff at the Indian embassy, which is close to the site of the blast, were marked safe.
"The vigilance and courage of the Afghan security forces prevented the [vehicle-borne improvised explosive device] from gaining entry to the Green Zone", Resolute Support said in a statement.
Abdullah Habibzai says city workers have removed around 200 large trucks of garbage and destroyed material after Wednesday's blast.
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"Personally, I believe that children and women can not be deported to Afghanistan, this needs to be said clearly..."
At least 11 United States citizens assigned to the U.S. embassy as contractors were injured in the blast in Kabul, according to USA officials.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing that hit in a highly secure diplomatic area of the Afghan capital.
The ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), said the attack demonstrates why Trump must articulate a strategy to end the conflicts in Afghanistan.
Gen. John Nicholson, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and USA forces in the country, applauded the Afghan security forces for preventing the truck full of explosives from entering the Green Zone.
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The US has about 8,400 troops in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's war, the longest ever involving USA troops, has shown no sign of letting up and the introduction into the battle of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) affiliate has made the country only more volatile.
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