KABUL -- At least 24 people were killed in Monday's bombing near the residence of Mohammad Mohaqiq, the deputy to Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, on the western side of Kabul, officials said. Abdul Wahab Azizi, Mohaqiq's chief of staff, had earlier told dpa that 21 people were killed in the bombing. The number of injured was unknown, Azizi had said, but a mini-bus carrying passengers was totally destroyed in the blast. Kabul ambulances so far have transported nine dead and 12 wounded to hospitals across town, an Afghan Public Health Ministry spokesman said. The attack took place on the anniversary of an Islamic State bombing of a protest that killed more than 80 people and wounded 230 others last year in Kabul.

Source: The China Post July 24, 2017 05:48 UTC