A roadside bomb killed seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial police spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe bomb was placed in a cart by the roadside. It was detonated as the bus arrived,\u201d said Asif Waziri, of the Balkh police department in Mazar-i-Sharif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the Taliban claim to have improved security across the nation since storming back to power in August last year, there have been scores of bomb blasts and attacks \u2014 many claimed by the local chapter of the ISIS group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further details were not immediately available, and there has been no claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A roadside bomb killed seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial police spokesman said. \u201cThe bomb was placed in a cart by the roadside. It was detonated as the bus arrived,\u201d said Asif Waziri, of the Balkh police department in Mazar-i-Sharif. Although the Taliban claim to have improved …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":88371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[43,1950,2335],"class_list":["post-88370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-bombing","tag-mazar-i-sharif"],"yoast_head":"\n