A member of the Taliban security forces stand guard at a checkpoint on a street in Jalalabad on December 6, 2022. PHOTO AFP KABUL -- At least seven people were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a vehicle carrying oil workers was hit in the northern province of Balkh, while another blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad injured six people.
Today at around 7 am a blast took place in Balkh on a bus belonging to Hairatan oil employees, said Mohammad Asif Wazeri, police spokesperson for the northern province.
He said at least six people were wounded.
Balkh province is home to one of the main dry ports of Afghanistan in the town of Hairatan, near the border with Uzbekistan, which has rail and road links to Central Asia.
Wazeri said Balkh police were looking for a culprit behind the explosion. It wasn't clear who the employees on the bus worked for.
According to the police in Nangahar province, another blast happened later in the day near the money exchange market in Jalalabad.
The cause of both blasts was not immediately clear.