Police said the first explosion happened in the Pul-e-Sokhta area in Kabul’s District 3, hitting a passenger bus, in which one civilian was killed and five more were maimed.
Police added that the other explosion also targeted a passenger bus in the Sar-e-Karez area in Kabul’s District 6, in which two non-combatants were killed and seven more were maimed.
TOLOnews findings show that parts of the centers of at least 10 provinces, including Kabul, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Kunduz, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Parwan, Balkh, Kandahar, Badghis and Uruzgan have faced deadly anti-security incidents in the last 15 days.
One of them was a deadly car kaboom in the city of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
in the west of Afghanistan, which resulted in seven civilians killed and over 60 more maimed, according to local officials.
Amid concerns over an increase in violence, Interior Minister Gen. Massoud Andarabi in an interview with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Saturday said that Afghan cops are capable of holding their positions even if US troops withdraw.
"The Afghan cops are fully capable of defending the capital and the cities and the territories that we are present in right now," he said. "We think that the Afghan cops this year have proven to the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...that they will not be able to gain territory."
TOLOnews figures show that 67 security incidents have happened in the country so far this month in which 125 people, including civilians and security force members, have been killed and 172 others have been maimed.
Afghans from various parts of the country said they are concerned about their safety.
"We are concerned about our safety when we leave our homes in the morning. We don’t know what happens next," said Mir Rahmat, a Herat resident.
Faryab is another province that has witnessed festivities between security forces and the Taliban over the last few days.
"Almar district fell to bad boys. The city of Maimana will also fall to gunnies if the situation continues," said Abdul Wahab, a Faryab resident.