4 Women, Infant Boy Killed in Kabul Blast
Five civilians, including four women – one of them pregnant – and a child, were killed in an explosion in downtown Kabul that targeted a bus carrying low-ranking employees of two government ministries on Monday afternoon.
The blast happened a day after two similar blasts targeted two civilian buses in Kabul’s west on Sunday evening.
Monday’s blast targeted a bus that carried the employees of the ministries of education, information and culture, and the Afghan Post, which operates under the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology. Such buses are usually hired on a monthly basis by government employees.