AFGHANISTAN: Suicide bomber attacks army bus killing four

Record ID: 278031

  • Title: AFGHANISTAN: Suicide bomber attacks army bus killing four
  • Date: 26th January 2014
  • Summary: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (JANUARY 26, 2014) (REUTERS) AFGHAN POLICE CONVOYS ARRIVING AT THE SCENE OF A SUICIDE ATTACK TARGETTING ARMY BUS AFGHAN POLICE SOLDIERS AT THE AREA AFGHAN ARMY SOLDIERS AT THE SCENE OF ATTACK DAMAGED NEARBY SHOPS CAUSED ATTACK BROKEN WINDOWS OF THE SHOPS CAUSED ATTACK DAMAGED CAR AT THE SCENE OF ATTACK BREAD AND BROKEN GLASS INSIDE THE CAR AFGHAN
  • Embargoed: 10th February 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Afghanistan
  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA5NCI6LT7X45M1N0L2Z043Q8HL
  • Story Text: A suicide bomber attacked an Afghan army bus in the capital Kabul, on Sunday (January 26) killing four people and wounding up to 22 people, police said.
    The attack, the latest in a worrying upsurge of violence in Kabul and around Afghanistan, was claimed by the Taliban.
    Two army personnel and two civilians were among the dead, according to the Ministry of Defense, and some of those wounded were children who had been nearby when the bomber attacked.
    "A suicide bomber was waiting at the bus station and detonated himself when the army bus arrived. As a result three Afghan army soldiers and a woman were martyred and nine others wounded," said Abdul Qayum Baqizoi, deputy police chief of Kabul
    It was the deadliest attack over another restive 24 hours in Kabul, with at least two other incidents reported by security officials in the Afghan capital.
    The previous evening, two people were wounded in an explosion in the northern part of the capital, while security sources said a rocket struck close to the airport without inflicting any casualties.
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