Up to 10 people were killed and 21 others got injured after two separate suicide bomb attacks targeted Afghan army vehicles in the national capital of Kabul on Wednesday morning, according to the country's Interior Ministry statement released here hours after the incident.

The casualties included seven army personnel, one civilian and two suicide attackers, the ministry said in the statement.

The bombings came one day after the country inked Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with U.S. and Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with NATO to keep limited number of troops beyond 2014 to train and advice Afghan national security forces. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest at the first door of an army bus, killing seven army personnel and one civilian while 15 people, including eight military personnel, six civilians and a traffic police, got wounded in the blast,"Interior Ministry statement asserted.

The attack occurred when the bus was running slowly to pass a corner in third police district in western Kabul at around 6:20 a. m. local time, it said.

The second attack occurred in a span of five minutes at 6:25 a. m. local time in northern Kabul city when a suicide car bomb was detonated close to another army vehicle, killing the attacker and wounding six army personnel, the statement noted.

On Tuesday, the government of Afghanistan and the United States inked the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) to allow limited number of troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 pullout of the NATO-led troops in the country.

The Taliban insurgent group claimed responsibility for the coincide attacks.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a purported Taliban spokesman, told local media from undisclosed location via telephone that the attacks were a response to the signing of the deal.

In a similar step on Tuesday, Afghan government and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) also inked Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) on the same ceremony held in Arg or Afghan Presidential Palace.

The attacks also came two days after Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn-in as new president of the war-torn country on Monday.

More than 41,000 NATO-led coalition troops, down from the peak of 130,000 in 2010, are currently stationed in Afghanistan. Nearly 29,000 of them are Americans and the United States plans to trim its forces to less than 10,000 next year.

Taliban outfit in a statement posted on its website Wednesday denounced inking defense and security agreements with U.S. and NATO as "selling the country's freedom" and vowing to continue war till the eviction of all foreign forces from Afghanistan. Endi

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