At least seven killed as three blasts rock Kabul.
At least seven people were killed and 21 wounded by three blasts that rocked the Afghan capital Thursday ahead of the election season.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came just three days before the official campaign season for the September 28 presidential election gets underway. According to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, the first blast came around 8:10 am when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle hit a bus in eastern Kabul. He said the bus belonged to the ministry of mines and petroleum.Rahimi put the death toll at seven with another 21 wounded. It was not immediately clear if this was from all the blasts or just the first.
Still, the US and the Taliban insist they are making progress, and the insurgents and a group of Afghans this month made a vague and unbinding pledge to try to reduce civilian deaths to"zero".
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