A huge explosion shattered Afghanistan’s capital city on Monday when a suicide bomber carried out a deadly attack which caused the death of more than 40 people and injured 140 close to the Indian Embassy in Kabul, The New York Times reported.

There were six Afghan policemen among the dead, the country’s Interior Ministry said, and at least two of the dead were Indian paramilitary soldiers guarding the embassy.

"Our information says two personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police have been killed in the attack," a foreign ministry source said according the Aljazeera.

Although the Afghani people probably got used to suicide bomb attacks, this one was the deadliest in the history of Kabul and the deadliest suicide bombing since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

The suicide bomber reportedly rammed a vehicle into two Indian diplomatic cars while they were entering the gates of the embassy. Once inside the building’s courtyard, the man detonated the explosives destroying several other cars and spreading human body parts and bloodstained scraps of clothing all over the place.

The suicide bomber managed to drive the vehicle packed with explosives to the gates of the embassy despite the fact that he drove the car on what should have been the safest road in Kabul.

Another huge explosion caused by a similar attack took place near the embassy last year, when a suicide bomber attacked the nearby Afghan Interior Ministry.