A suicide bomber
attacked a bus carrying Afghan government employees in Kabul on Sunday, killing
three people, in the second bus attack in just a week to strike the same area
of the capital, a police official said.
Taliban insurgents
quickly claimed the attack near the Afghan attorney general's office in the
west of the capital.Violence has continued
in Afghanistan since the withdrawal of most foreign forces last year, with
civilians frequent victims.
Sunday's bomber
attacked a bus carrying workers from the attorney general's office home after
work, witnesses and police said."As I was crossing
the road, there was a huge blast and I saw 10 to 12 people were wounded,"
said bystander Mahboobullah, who, like many Afghans, uses only one name.
An official at the
Ministry of Interior said initial reports indicated that three people had been
killed and 10 wounded. He confirmed the bus had been carrying staff from the
attorney general's office.
Last Monday, another
suicide car bomber targeted a bus in the same area, killing one civilian and
wounding 15 people.
The Taliban claimed
both attacks. On Sunday, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the hardline
Islamist movement had killed "18 high-ranking hirelings".
The Taliban frequently
exaggerate casualties in their attacks and view civil servants as legitimate
targets in their battle to topple the U.S.-backed government. (Reuters)
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