Roadside bomb kills 6 people in north Afghanistan
Islamabad (AP): A roadside bomb went off near a bus with government employees during rush hour on Tuesday morning in northern Afghanistan, killing six people, a Taliban official said.
Mohammad Asif Waziri, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the police chief in Balkh province, said the bombing in Mazar-e Sharif, the provincial capital, also wounded seven people.
The bomb was placed inside a cart by the side of the road and detonated when a bus belonging to the Hiaratan gas and petroleum department was taking employees to work.
No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the regional affiliate of the Islamic State group known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province and a rival of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has increased its attacks since Taliban takeover in 2021.
Images posted on social media from the scene show a damaged bus and another vehicle, along with several carts and fruit stalls lying scattered by the roadside following the explosion.
The bus was later towed away.
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Bus owner Saif Athrady murder: KCOCA case registered against six accused, says Udupi SP
Udupi: A case under Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act, 2000 (KCOCA), Section 3, was filed against six people under suspicion of their involvement in the alleged murder of Saifuddin Athrady (Saif), owner of private bus company MKMS at Kodavoor under the Malpe Police Station limits on September 27.
The arrested accused in the case are Muhammad Faisal Khan (27), resident of colony near Mission Compound in Udupi; Muhammad Sharief (37) of Karamballi; Abdul Shukur (43) of Krishnapura; Khan’s wife Ridha Shabana (27), and Mali Muhammad Siyan (31) are under judicial custody.
The primary accused in the murder, however, is reported to be absconding and hiding on foreign soil.
Udupi Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar has said that the names of all six accused, including that of the missing, have been cited in the case registered under KCOCA Section 3.
