At least 11 dead in Afghan bus blast a day after dozens died in a bombing at a girls' school

At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus hit a roadside mine in the restive Zabul province in southern Afghanistan late Sunday night, the Interior Ministry said. The deadly blast was the second in as many days in Afghanistan -- a horrific bombing at a girls' school outside the capital of Kabul on Saturday killed dozens, most of them students  between 11 and 15 years old, and wounded roughly 100.

The Zabul bombing came hours before the Taliban declared a three-day ceasefire across Afghanistan to mark this week's Eid al-Fitr holiday. Violence in the country has been rising sharply since President Biden announced the United States would withdraw its last 2,500 troops from the violence-wracked country by September 11 despite faltering efforts between the Taliban and Afghan government to end a decades-long war.