A suicide attack on a minibus in Kabul has killed at least
14 people and injured several more, Afghan authorities say. The victims were
Nepali nationals on their way to the Canadian embassy where they worked as
security guards. The attacker waited for the bus as it left a compound,
police said.
The Kabul blasts were followed by a separate bomb attack on a market in
Badakhshan province that killed at least 10 people and wounded 18.
12 Taliban terrorists were killed in separate ambushes of
the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said. According
to a statement by MoI “Eight armed Taliban were killed in an ambush of the
Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army in Sayed Abad village, Nad Ali
District of southern Helmand province, yesterday morning..
In a separate incident, four armed Taliban were killed and
five other armed Taliban were wounded in an ambush of the Afghan National
Police in Mati Kali village, Gilan District of Ghazni province, yesterday
evening.
Ramadan death toll is now at 4,679
