Bombing of Afghan government employee bus kills 1 in Kabul

Afghan children travel on a donkey cart past the site of roadside bomb explosion on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 11, 2016. An Afghan official says at least one person has been killed when a bomb ripped through a bus carrying education ministry employees to work in the capital, Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (The Associated Press)

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Afghans inspect damages of a bus after a suicide attack in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 11, 2016. An Afghan official says that at least 12 new army recruits have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar) (The Associated Press)

Afghans inspect the damages of a bus after a suicide attack in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 11, 2016. An Afghan official says that at least 12 new army recruits have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar) (The Associated Press)

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says at least one person has been killed when a bomb ripped through a bus carrying education ministry employees to work in the capital, Kabul.

Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi of the Interior Ministry says five people were wounded in Monday's blast. He says the explosion was caused by a magnetic bomb attached to the bus.

Rahim Gul, the assistant driver on the bus, gave a higher toll. He told The Associated Press that two employees were killed.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The Taliban frequently use roadside and so-called sticky bombs, as well as suicide attacks against Afghan security forces and government employees across the country.

Such bombings regularly take place Kabul, though the Afghan capital has not seen a major attack in some months.