At least 12 police recruits killed in Afghan bombingApril 12, 2016 - 09:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - At least 12 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a bomb targeting police recruits in eastern Afghanistan, officials say, according to BBC News. The blast happened in the Sorkhrot district of Nangarhar province. The recruits were traveling to the capital Kabul when the bus was hit by a remote-control device in a motorbike, a local official told the BBC. Other reports suggested a suicide bomber had rammed the bus on the motorbike. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the Islamist group had carried out the attack, according to the Reuters news agency. Taliban militants have previously targeted officials in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar. Ahsanullah Shinwari, head of the Jalalabad hospital, told the Associated Press that 12 bodies had been brought to the hospital. He said another 38 people were wounded, most of them in critical condition. No group has yet claimed responsibility. Suicide attacks regularly take place in Jalalabad, as a number of anti-government insurgent groups are based in the province. Hours earlier, a bomb hit a minibus carrying Education Ministry workers in eastern Kabul, killing two people and wounding seven, a defence ministry spokesman told Reuters. Two districts in the Nangarhar province are controlled, or at least influenced, by the so-called Islamic State (IS). Top stories Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |