Multiple blasts rock Afghan capital Kabul

By Shadi Khan Saif

KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) - Multiple bomb explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday killed at least seven government employees, an official confirmed.

According to the Interior Ministry, a minibus carrying the Mines and Petroleum Ministry employees was hit by a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle.

Nusrat Rahimi, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told Anadolu Agency that the minibus picked the Mines and Petroleum Ministry employees from the Macroryan area in the heart of the city early in the morning and was on the way to the office when the attacker targeted it.

The Health Ministry confirmed seven people got killed and more than 20 others got wounded in the attack. Five women and a child were among those killed in the attack.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for this attack.

The second attack, which has been described as a car bombing, took place on the main Kabul-Jalalabad highway in the eastern Dispatchery neighborhood.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for this attack, asserting that a convoy of foreign troops was targeted.

Meanwhile, seven civilians were killed when an improvised explosive device blasted near a roadside in Nangarhar province, an official said on Thursday.

This is a developing story.