Afghanistan: two dead in an attack against a bus in the north

Two gunmen opened fire Sunday on a bus carrying technicians employed at an airport in northern Afghanistan, killing at least two people and injuring six others, police said.

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" in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, where the technicians were preparing to take up their duty, the spokesman told AFP. of the Balkh Provincial Police, Mohammad Asif Waziri.

The attack comes as foreign airlines have yet to resume flights to the capital Kabul and other Afghan cities since the Taliban took power in August.

They cite in particular safety issues for their crews and passengers.

Taliban fighters currently provide security at all airport facilities in the country, and the authorities recently contracted a United Arab Emirates company to manage passenger and baggage screening at several Afghan airports, including Kabul.

The number of attacks has decreased in the country since the Taliban came to power, but a series of deadly bomb attacks, in which dozens of people were killed, hit the country at the end of April, during the holy month of ramadan, and also at the end of may.

Most were claimed by the jihadist organization Islamic State, and mainly targeted the Shiite community.

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On Saturday, a bomb explosion in a minibus in Kabul killed at least four people.

The attack has not been claimed so far.