ABU DHABI, July 17. /ITAR-TASS/. According to preliminary reports, four presidential bodyguards were wounded as several militants attacked motorcade of Afghanistan's current President Hamid Karzai in Eastern Afghan Paktia province on Thursday, the national news agency Khaama Press reported.

Earlier on Thursday morning Taliban terrorists attacked the airport, located in the country’s capital city Kabul, but were rendered by Afghan law enforcement squads.

“The terrorist attack has failed and the attacked area is now safe. All the terrorists, hidden in the nearby buildings under construction, have been neutralized”, head of airport’s criminal police Gul Aga Hashimi said.