Eleven dead, seven wounded in Kabul bus blast

KABUL: At least 11 people were killed and seven wounded in a suicide attack on a police bus in the Afghan capital Kabul on early Tuesday, a government official said, updating an earlier toll.   

"The dead included six policemen who had been on the bus and five civilians, among them three children who were going to school," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. "The seven wounded included civilians and police," he added.   

The blast destroyed the bus, which was collecting people for work. The attack, claimed by the insurgent Taliban movement, was similar to a suicide bombing near the city centre on Friday that killed 30 people -- most of them military staff -- and wounded 30 more.