The blast happened a day after two similar blasts targeted two civilian buses in Kabul’s west on Sunday evening.
Monday’s blast targeted a bus that carried the employees of the ministries of education, information and culture, and the Afghan Post, which operates under the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology. Such buses are usually hired on a monthly basis by
Khatira Mayil, a pregnant mother, was killed with her three-year-old child in the earth-shattering kaboom. She was expecting her second child to be born soon.
At least 13 others, all civilians, were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom, according to officials.
Shukriya and Nargis Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i, two employees of Afghan Post; Aziza Malik Zada, an employee of the Ministry of Information and Culture; Khatira Mayil, an employee of the Ministry of Education, and her child, Arsh Mayil, were the five victims of the attack. The victims were laid to rest in Kabul on Tuesday.
Figures collected by TOLOnews show that 140 people have been killed and 202 others have been maimed in different security incidents in the last 15 days.
Of the 140 killed, 87 of them were security force members, 42 were civilians and 11 were
Of the maimed, 74 were security force members, 114 were civilians and 14 were
Data collected by TOLOnews shows that 270 civilians and security force members were killed and 173 more were maimed in various security incidents across the country in February.
The findings show that 166 security incidents, including magnetic IED blasts, roadside kaboom blasts, assassinations and Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...offensives, occurred in Afghanistan in February.
The data shows that the February casualties are slightly less than what was reported by TOLOnews in January.