{"id":39590,"date":"2019-06-02T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T12:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39590"},"modified":"2019-06-02T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T12:22:57","slug":"three-explosions-hit-kabul-killing-one-and-injuring-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39590","title":{"rendered":"Three explosions hit Kabul killing one and injuring 17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three explosions struck the Afghan capital, including a magnetic bomb attached to a bus carrying university students that killed at least one person, officials said.<\/p>\n

The bus explosion wounded 10 people, Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two roadside bombs were detonated about 20 minutes later, wounding seven more people, including five security forces in the same residential area of western Kabul.<\/p>\n

“In total, one Afghan civilian was martyred and 17 others, including a local journalist and five Afghan forces, have been slightly wounded,” Rahimi said.<\/p>\n

Several houses and shops around the blast sites were damaged. Security forces blocked all roads leading to the areas.<\/p>\n

Wahidullah Mayar, a spokesman for the public health ministry, said at least four women were wounded in the bus bombing and had been taken to hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the Kabul attacks. Both the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL<\/a> or ISIS) launch regular assaults in the capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Violence continues<\/h2>\n

Eight Afghan police were killed on Saturday and seven others wounded in a Taliban<\/a> suicide attack in the eastern Ghazni city, provincial police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seera told AFP news agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even though the Taliban and the United States are set to begin a new round of peace talks<\/a> in Doha this month, violence across Afghanistan<\/a> continues unabated, with civilians often bearing the brunt of the bloodshed.<\/p>\n

On Friday, a Taliban car bomber killed at least four Afghan civilians and lightly wounded four US troops in an attack on a US convoy<\/a> in Kabul.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, at least six people were killed and 16 more wounded in an ISIL-claimed suicide blast outside a military academy<\/a> in the capital.<\/p>\n

Eight Afghan police were killed on Saturday and seven others wounded in a suicide attack in the eastern Ghazni city, provincial police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seera told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had proposed a nationwide ceasefire at the start of Ramadan early last month, but the Taliban rejected the offer.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Taliban observed a three-day ceasefire over Eid and many Afghans – exhausted by decades of war and violence – had pinned their hopes on another truce this year.<\/p>\n

Taliban head Haibatullah Akhunzada said on Saturday there would be no “cold water”<\/a> poured on the group’s military efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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