The speeding car struck the gate and exploded, sending up a fireball that was captured on a cellphone video by a protester a few hundred yards away.
A police officer said the attacker struck the main gate of al-Hout prison at 8am local time when many employees and guards were on their way to work.
Gen. Gul Agha Rohani, Kabul's deputy police chief, said he was told a suicide car bomber had struck the front gate of the airport and was on his way to the scene.
Thousands of Houthi supporters gathered to condemn the air strikes at the gate to Sanaa's old city, waving banners and chanting, "Death to America!" In an apparent reference to Iran, the Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said the operation aimed to counter the "aggression of Houthi militias backed by regional powers".
The gate struck the back passenger side edge of Ms. Brody's vehicle, said Rick Hope, the driver behind her, then slid down farther and came to rest pressing in on the top of a window.
A suicide bomber struck outside the gates and killed 23 people.
A suicide bomber recently struck at the gates of the presidential palace, and a stray mortar shell crashed into a refugee camp, killing six.
Page A7 BOMB STRIKES IRAQI POLICE A suicide car bomber struck at the gates of Baghdad's police academy as recruits were leaving the compound, ending weeks of relative calm in Baghdad after a particularly violent January.
BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber struck at the gates of Baghdad's police academy on Sunday afternoon as recruits were leaving the compound, ending weeks of relative calm here after a particularly violent January.
Kabul police spokesman Basir Mujahid said hundreds of people were inside watching a match when the bomber struck outside the gates where security guards were searching people.
Federal investigators on Saturday confirmed some of what witnesses reported, saying that seven seconds before impact, the gate arms struck the flag poles lining the flatbed trailer.
