Ten killed in suicide attack near Afghan capital

A suicide attack on a bus carrying staff from an appeal court killed 10 people and wounded four on Wednesday west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came as the Taliban confirmed their former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been killed in a US drone strike and would be succeeded by his deputy, Haibatullah Akhunzada.



The United States on Tuesday said it is still unclear which side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in.



When asked about the precise location of the drone strike on the late Taliban supremo, US State Department spokesperson Mike Toner said, “I don’t have any more clarity of where the actual strike took place. What I can say is that it was in that border region. I just can’t say on which side of the border it was.”