Afghan police say a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive device near a bank in northern Afghanistan, killing at least five people and wounding seven others.

A suicide bomber on Thursday killed one person and wounded three others in an attack near government offices in Kabul, Afghanistan. An government spokesman, who said the suicide bomber was also killed,

At least five people were killed when a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated outside a bank in northeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, police said.

One killed and three others suffered injuries in a suicide attack on Afghan ministry of urban development and housing on Thursday. "The suicide attacker wanted to enter the ministry and one of the mujahideen (security forces) shot him and then in the result of the explosion another person near him was killed and three injured,

In Afghanistan, at least five people have been killed and seven wounded in a bomb blast in Kunduz province. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast yet.

A suicide bomber killed five people including Taliban security forces on Tuesday in an explosion outside a bank in northern Afghanistan, police said. Seven people were also wounded in the attack which targeted a queue of people waiting to collect their salaries from a bank in the city of Kunduz, the capital of Kunduz province.