KABUL: One person was killed and 17 others
wounded Sunday in three successive blasts in Kabul, Afghan officials said,
capping a murderous week of mayhem across the city. Among the wounded was an
Afghan journalist who appeared to have been live-streaming the aftermath of the
first explosion when a second bomb went off.
The events started with the detonation of a
sticky bomb -- a growing menace in Kabul, where insurgents and criminals slap
magnetic bombs on the underside of vehicles. The charge had been placed under a
bus carrying officials headed to the Kabul Education University, interior
ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said.
In the immediate aftermath, two more bombs
that had been planted by the side of the road went off, he added."In
total, one Afghan civilian was martyred and 17 others, including a local
journalist and five Afghan forces, have been slightly wounded," Rahimi
said. Health ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar confirmed the toll. There was
no immediate claim of responsibility, but both the Taliban and Daesh group have
carried out recent blasts.
According to a video circulating on social
media, the journalist was hit in the leg by the second bomb. Last year, nine
journalists including AFP Kabul's chief photographer Shah Marai were killed in
a secondary explosion after rushing to the scene of an initial blast. Even
though the Taliban and the US are set to begin a new round of peace talks in
Doha this month, violence across Afghanistan continues unabated, with civilians
often bearing the brunt of the bloodshed.
On Friday, a Taliban car bomber killed at
least four Afghan civilians and lightly wounded four US troops in an attack on
a US convoy in Kabul. A day earlier, at least six people were killed and 16
more wounded in an Daesh-claimed suicide blast outside a military academy in
the capital. And eight Afghan police were killed Saturday and seven others
wounded in a suicide attack in the eastern Ghazni city, provincial police
spokesman Ahmad Khan Seera told AFP.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had proposed
a nationwide ceasefire at the start of Ramadan early last month, but the
Taliban rejected the offer. Last year, the Taliban observed a three-day
ceasefire over Eid and many Afghans -- exhausted by decades of war and violence
-- had pinned their hopes on another truce this year. Taliban head Haibatullah
Akhundzada said Saturday there would be no "cold water" poured on the
insurgents' military efforts.
Source: Arab News- 2 June 2019
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