A bomb struck a bus taking Afghan soldiers to work in the capital Kabul early yesterday, killing the driver and wounding 25 more people, police and the defence ministry said. The bomb, which the Taliban said they planted, was hidden in a car parked at the side of the road and was remotely detonated as the bus went by, an army officer said. "Twenty-five wounded were taken to hospital," defence ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi told AFP. "22 are members of the defence ministry. There are three civilians. One person has died."The city's criminal investigation chief Alishah Paktiawal said earlier the dead person was the driver of the bus. "It was a roadside bomb targeting an ANA (Afghan National Army) bus," he said. He blamed the attack, one of a handful inside the city this year, on the "enemies of peace and stability in Afghanistan" -- a term Afghan officials often use and one generally understood to refer to Taliban insurgents. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said later the extremist movement had carried out the attack.