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At least 32 people, mostly women and children, died Wednesday when a roadside bomb ripped through a bus in western Afghanistan.

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Fifteen others were wounded, Mohibullah Mohib, a spokesman for the police chief in Farah province, told The Associated Press. Most of those wounded were in critical condition.

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No one has claimed responsibility for attacking the bus, which was traveling on a highway between the cities of Herat and Kandahar, but Taliban fighters operate in the region and often use roadside bombs, the AP reported.

Wednesday's attack comes a day after a U.N. report was released documenting the nearly 4,000 Afghan civilian casualties in in the first half of 2019 -- 1,366 killed, 2,446 wounded.

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The report concluded that most casualties -- about 52% -- continue to be caused by anti-government elements including the Taliban. On-the-ground fighting remained the leading cause of casualties, at about one-third of the total, with improvised explosives, or IEDs, responsible for 28% and airstrikes contributing about 14%.

PHOTO: An Afghan man holds the body of a child killed when a bus hit a roadside bomb on the Kandahar-Herat highway, at a hospital in Herat on July 31, 2019. — An Afghan man holds the body of a child killed when a bus hit a roadside bomb on the Kandahar-Herat highway, at a hospital in Herat on July 31, 2019.

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