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Afghanistan
Five killed as govt bus hit in Kabul blast
2019-06-05
[DAWN] A bomb attached into a bus carrying Afghan government workers has killed at least five people and maimed 10 others in the capital, Kabul, Afghan officials said on Monday.

Wahidullah Mayar, front man for the public health ministry, said the numbers could still rise. Nasrat Rahimi, front man for the interior ministry, said the employees belong to the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission.

Ahmad Shah, an eyewitness at the scene of the attack, said: "Five to seven bodies were on the street, a few of them were martyred and others were maimed." He said some of the victims were "burning inside the bus no one was able to enter." No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack, but both Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and the turban Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group are active in Kabul and have staged attacks there.
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