A provincial Taliban spokesman said that 7 people were killed and 6 injured in the blast in Mazar-i-Sharif.
The Taliban’s police spokesman in Balkh, Mohammad Asif Waziri, said on Tuesday morning (December 6th) that 7 petroleum company employees were killed and 6 others were injured as a roadside bomb hit a bus in the Hairatan border township in northern Afghanistan.
“The bomb was placed in the bus carrying petroleum company employees. It was detonated as the bus arrived,” said the Balkh police department in Mazar-i-Sharif.
Sources at Ibn Sina Hospital in Balkh, on the other hand, have indicated that 18 dead and wounded from the blast have been taken to this hospital only.
Some sources also said that 35 people were killed and wounded in this blast.
Further details are not immediately available, and there has been no claim of responsibility.
