A roadside bomb went off close to a bus with authorities staff throughout rush hour on Tuesday morning in northern Afghanistan, killing six folks, a Taliban official stated.

Mohammad Asif Waziri, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the police chief in Balkh province, stated the bombing in Mazar-e Sharif, the provincial capital, additionally wounded seven folks.

The bomb was positioned inside a cart by the aspect of the highway and detonated when a bus belonging to the Hiaratan gasoline and petroleum division was taking staff to work.

Separately, at the very least six folks have been wounded when a bomb exploded on the cash trade market within the metropolis of Jalalabad, the capital of jap Nangarhar province, in response to Abdul Basir Zabuli, a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the provincial police chief.

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Zabuli stated the bomb was planted close to the market and that the wounded have been in steady situation, in response to a hospital report.

An investigation was underway, he added.

No one claimed duty for the bombings in Balkh or Jalalabad, however the regional affiliate of the Islamic State group — generally known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province and a rival of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban — has elevated its assaults since Taliban takeover in 2021.

Images posted on social media from the scene in Balkh present a broken bus and one other automobile, together with a number of carts and fruit stalls mendacity scattered by the roadside following the explosion.

The bus was later towed away.