(VOVworld) - Taliban insurgents killed at least 19 people in a series of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday.

Afghan security guards inspect a damaged bus at the site of a suicide attack by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 (photo: AP)

A suicide blast wrecked an Afghan military bus in Kabul, killing seven soldiers, while a senior court official was assassinated in the city and 12 Afghan mine clearance workers were gunned down in the south. The Taliban claimed responsibility for all the attacks, underlining worsening security as US-led NATO forces end their combat mission in the country.