Eight people were injured in an explosion targeting a bus carrying government employees west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Taliban police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on Wednesday. 

A bus carrying employees of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development was hit by a roadside mine explosion in the Karta-e-Mamorin area of PD5 of the Afghan capital this morning, Zadran added.

No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the blast yet.