At least seven people were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a blast hit a vehicle carrying oil workers in Balkh.
At least seven people were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a blast hit a vehicle carrying oil workers in the northern province of Balkh, while another blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad injured six people.
“Today at around 7 a.m. a blast took place in …Balkh on a bus which belonged to Hairatan oil employees,” said Mohammad Asif Wazeri, police spokesperson for the northern province.
Balkh province is home to one of Afghanistan’s main dry ports in the town of Hairatan, near the border with Uzbekistan, which has rail and road links to Central Asia.
Wazeri said Balkh police was searching for a culprit behind the explosion on the vehicle. It was not clear who the employees on the bus worked for.
Another blast later in the day near the money exchange market in Jalalabad injured six people, according to police in Nangahar province.
The cause of both blasts was not immediately clear.
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Recently city of Aybak was also under attack ,A doctor at a hospital told AFP that a bomb at a madrassa in the northern Afghan city of Aybak resulted in at least 19 fatalities and 24 injuries.
Since the Taliban regained control in August of last year, there have been numerous explosions and attacks that targeted civilians, the most of which have been claimed by the regional branch of the Islamic State (IS) organisation.
The majority of the casualties, according to the doctor in Aybak, approximately 200 kilometres (130 miles) north of Kabul, were children.
Despite his request to remain anonymous, he told AFP that “all of them are kids and regular people.”
Ten students had killed, according to the Taliban, which regularly exaggerates death numbers, and “many others” had been hurt.
An official from the province could not estimate the number of casualties but did confirm the explosion at the Islamic religious school Al Jihad madrassa.
Ten students had killed, according to the Taliban, which regularly exaggerates death numbers, and “many others” had been hurt.
The Interior Ministry’s spokesman, Abdul Nafay Takor, tweeted that “our investigators and security personnel are working swiftly to find the culprits of this heinous crime and punish them for their conduct.”
Taliban gunmen were seen making their way through bodies scattered across a building’s floor in images and videos that were circulating on social media but could not immediately be verified.
The Aybak doctor said some critically wounded patients had been moved to better-equipped hospitals in Mazar-i-Sharif, which is about 120 kilometres away by road.
Aybak is a small but ancient provincial capital that came to prominence as a caravan stopping post for traders during the fourth and fifth centuries, when it was also an important Buddhist centre..
In May last year, before the Taliban’s return to power, at least 85 people — mainly girls — were killed and about 300 were wounded when three bombs exploded near their school in the neighbourhood.
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