1 killed, 19 injured in Kabul blast

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Monday said one person was killed and 19 wounded in a roadside bombing in the capital Kabul this afternoon.

The MoI spokesman, Seddiq Seddiqi tweeted on his twitter account that a woman was killed and four women were among 19 others injured in the blast. The dead and the injured were civilians, he said.

The blast took place on the third street of Taimani locality of Kabul city about 5pm.

Images about the incident on social media websites showed the target of the blast was a Coaster model bus.

Emergency hospital in a tweet says 23 wounded people in today’s blast were brought to the hospital; 20 of them admitted, 1 DOA, 2 treated in OPD.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

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