Afghanistan: Bus explosion in Kabul kills at least 1, injures 5 others – National
A bomb exploded on a mini-bus Saturday on a busy business road in a Kabul neighborhood primarily populated by members of Afghanistan‘s minority Hazara neighborhood, emergency staff and the bus driver mentioned. Not less than one particular person was killed and 5 wounded.
Employees with the ambulance groups on the scene instructed The Related Press that the blast appeared to have been attributable to a bomb on the bus.
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The bus driver, chatting with the AP on the hospital, mentioned that at one level throughout his route, a suspicious man acquired onto the bus and some minutes later, the explosion went off behind the bus.
The motive force, who goes by a single identify Murtaza, mentioned he noticed two passengers with their garments on hearth falling out of the again of the automobile whereas different passengers escaped out the entrance.
The spokesman for Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, instructed the AP {that a} hearth broke out on the mini-bus and brought about an explosion, killing one particular person and wounding one other.
Images from the scene confirmed the burning wreckage of a automobile with a pall of smoke rising into the air. The explosion befell on the principle avenue operating by Dashti Barchi, a sprawling neighborhood on the west facet of Kabul largely populated by Hazaras.
Afghanistan’s Hazaras, who’re largely Shiite Muslims, have been the goal of a brutal marketing campaign of violence for the previous a number of years, blamed on the Islamic State group. Militants have carried out a number of lethal assaults in Dashti Barcihi, together with a 2020 assault on a maternity hospital.
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