Three blasts hit Kabul, killing 1, injuring 17

One person was killed and 17 others wounded yesterday in three successive blasts in Kabul, Afghan officials said, capping a murderous week of mayhem across the city. The events started with the detonation of a sticky bomb -- a growing menace in Kabul, where insurgents and criminals slap magnetic bombs on the underside of vehicles. The charge had been placed under a bus carrying officials headed to the Kabul Education University, a source said. In the immediate aftermath, two more bombs that had been planted by the side of the road went off, he added.