At least 24 killed in Kabul car bombing

TIL Desk/World/Kabul/ At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul today, an official said, the latest attack to strike the Afghan capital.

“The car bomb hit a bus carrying employees of the ministry of mines during rush hour,” interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told.

No militant group immediately claimed the blast, but it came as the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country in recent days, with several new districts falling to the militants over the weekend.

The neighbourhood in which today’s bomb detonated is home to many Shiite Hazaras, a persecuted ethnic minority who have been targeted many times in the past. It is also near prominent politician and former warlord Mohammad Mohaqeq’s home.