Afghanistan: Three killed, five injured in Kabul blast

KABUL, 18 November 2021, (TON): Officials said “at least three people were killed and five wounded in a bomb attack on a minibus in Kabul.”

A Taliban official told media “the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital destroyed the vehicle in a suburb, Dasht-e-Barchi.”

He said “our initial information shows the bomb was attached to a minibus. We have launched an investigation.”

Different Taliban officials gave varying accounts of the casualties.

A reporter said “I heard a huge explosion… when I looked around a minibus and a taxi were on fire.”

“I also saw ambulances rush to the area to take wounded and dead people to the hospital.”

Last week a journalist was killed and at least four other people injured when a bomb destroyed another minibus in the same area.

The Daesh-Khorasan claimed responsibility for the attack, boasting it had killed or injured individuals in the incident.

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