Kabul, Afghanistan ? A suicide bomber exploded today next to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry in Kabul, killing at least 10 people and wounding 54, officials said.

Dr. Salam Jalali, a public health ministry official, said many of the injured were in critical condition and that the death toll could rise.

The explosion happened a little before 8 a.m., as ministry employees were reporting to work, near a narrow dirt road where employees and civilians pass through a security gate.