Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/MAZAR-i-SHARIF: A roadside bomb blast killed 7 petroleum company workers aboard a bus in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Asif Waziri of the police department in Mazar-i-Sharif said that a bomb was set in a cart by the roadside. It exploded as the bus arrived and 6 people were also injured in the explosions. Waziri said the explosions occurred around 7:00 am, near Sayed Abad Square in the city.
Bomb Blasts Common Incidence in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Although the Taliban claim to have improved national security since storming back to power in August of the previous year, there have been scores of bomb explosions and attacks, many claimed by the local chapter of the Daesh group. Nineteen people were killed and 24 others injured earlier this month by a bomb explosions at a madrassa in Aybak, southeast of Mazar-I-Sharif.
