Six killed in suicide attack near Kabul bank
Kabul, August 29 (IANS): At least six persons were killed and nine injured on Tuesday in a suicide attack near a bank in Kabul, Afghan police said. The attack took place at around 10 a.m. near a New Kabul Bank branch in a heavily protected area about 300 metres from NATO’s Resolute Support Mission Headquarters, the US Embassy and the Kabul Supreme Court. Kabul police spokesperson, Basir Mujahid told Efe news the victims included five civilians and the attacker. The wounded, including four women, were taken in several ambulances to the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital, Afghan Ministry of Public Health spokesperson Ismail Kawsi told Efe. The Taliban has claimed the attack that was likely targeted at soldiers and police officers who were at the bank to withdraw their salaries ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday this week.
14 killed as bus, pick-up truck collide in Egypt
Cairo, August 29 (PTI): At least 14 people were killed and 42 others injured today when a bus and a pick-up truck collided after plunging from a bridge onto the road below in southern Egypt, officials said. The Health Ministry said in a statement that the accident took place on a main road linking Beni Suef with the capital, Cairo. The driver of the pick-up truck, which was carrying poultry, told local media that he fell with his vehicle from the bridge but managed to get out of the vehicle quickly, then the bus fell over his vehicle. The driver is currently being treated in a hospital. The bus, which was travelling from Cairo to the Upper Egyptian city of Menya, was carrying 62 passengers. Hospital sources said that some of the injured are in a serious condition. Egypt has one of the world’s highest accident rates owing to careless driving and poor road and vehicle conditions. The World Health Organisation (WHO) ranks Egypt as the world’s tenth worst country in road accidents, after India, China and the US.
