Suicide bombing kills 12, injures 10 more in Afghan capital
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KABUL -- A suicide car bomb killed 12 people as well as the bomber and injured another 10 people early Monday morning in a western neighborhood of Afghanistan's capital where several prominent politicians reside, a government official said.
Investigators were still at the scene. The bomber appeared to have rammed into a minibus, but Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said it's not clear whether the bus and its occupants were the target. Buses carrying government workers have been targeted previously, but Danish said the bus was badly burned and it wasn't immediately known whether the occupants were government employees.
"Right now all we know is that they were all civilians," he told The Associated Press.
No one immediately took responsibility for the explosion but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan have staged past attacks in Kabul.
