KABUL: At least seven persons including three children were killed and 17 others injured when a bus that took a detour to avoid one roadside bomb instead hit another in the central province of Ghazni on Tuesday morning, an Afghan official said.
The blast occurred in the province’s Muqur district when the bus was heading to Kabul from southern Helmand province, the provincial deputy police chief Assadullah Ensafi said.
Meanwhile, in another violent incident, four Afghan soldiers were injured when a suicide car bomb exploded in front of an Afghan National Army security post in Logar province’s Khushi district, Deputy police chief Rais Khan Abdul Rahimzai said.