The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a crowd of 5,000, with foreign airlines resuming flights to the capital, Kabul, or other Afghan cities after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.
Gunmen opened fire Sunday on a bus carrying airport technicians to northern Afghanistan, killing at least two of them and wounding six others, police said.
The vehicle “was attacked as a team of technicians was going to the airport” in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif to take up duty, the representative of the police in the province of Balkh, Mohammad Asif Waziri, explained to the French Agency.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a crowd of 5,000, with foreign airlines resuming flights to the capital, Kabul, or other Afghan cities after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.
Concerns are mainly raised about the safety of crews and their passengers.
Taliban fighters now guarantee security at all of the country’s airport facilities, and authorities recently entrusted a UAE company with managing passenger and luggage control at several Afghan airports, including Kabul.
The number of attacks in the country has dropped significantly since the Taliban came to power, but a series of deadly bombings, with dozens dead, hit the country in late April – during the holy month of Ramadan – and then in late May.
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist organization claimed responsibility for most of the killings. Most of them targeted the Shiite community.
A bomb blast near a bus in Kabul on Saturday killed at least four people. There has been no liability as of this stage.
