Suicide bomb, beheadings in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber has exploded a car today next to an Afghan army bus in Kabul, killing one person and wounding four others, while authorities in the east said they found the decapitated bodies of four road construction workers.
A civilian was killed and four other people including a soldier were wounded in the explosion which shattered the bus windows and badly damaged a passing taxi in Kabul's Taimani neighbourhood.
A series of attacks last year targeted buses carrying Afghan security forces, a key element of US efforts to beat back the insurgency gripping the country’s south and east.
In September a suicide bomber blew himself up in an army bus in Kabul, killing 28 soldiers and two civilians. In June a bomb ripped through a bus carrying police instructors in Kabul, killing 35 people.
Last year was Afghanistan’s most deadly since the ousting of the Taliban in a US-led invasion in 2001.
More than 6,500 people – mostly insurgents – are thought to have died as a result of violence.
Meanwhile, in eastern Nuristan province militants beheaded four road construction workers and dumped their bodies on the side of the road yesterday.
The four were kidnapped 10 days ago while working on a road project in Kamdesh district.
