KABUL, July 24: An Afghan government official says the death toll from a suicide car bombing in a western neighborhood of Kabul has climbed to 24.
The official says 42 people were wounded in the attack early on Monday morning. Kabul police chief spokesman Basir Mujahed says the bomber targeted a bus carrying employees of the mines and petroleum ministry.
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He said all the dead and wounded are civilians. The suicide bomber rammed his car into a minibus carrying the government employees.
The Interior Ministry in a statement called the attack a "criminal attack against humanity."
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but in the past, both the Taliban and the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan has staged assaults in the Afghan capital.
