Afghanan rocked several explosions, at least 14 dead
Three blasts tore through passenger vehicles in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday, killing at least nine, a provincial commander spokesman said as authorities confirmed another blast in the Afghan capital.
The blasts in northern Balkh province also injured 15 people, Mohammad Asif Wazeri, a spokesman for Balkh province’s commander told Reuters.
Another explosion hit a mosque in Kabul on Wednesday evening, a spokesman for the capital’s commander said, adding at least two people were injured.
🔴 #Afghanan #Kabul Explosion at a mosque in PD4 neighborhood. 22 wounded people arrived at our hospital, 5 already dead on arrival.
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Emergency Hospital in Kabul said in a tweet that they head received five bodies from the blast and more than a dozen wounded patients.
Blast tears through Kabul mosque, killing at least 5
A blast tore through a mosque in Afghanan’s capital on Wednesday evening, killing at least five people, authorities and hospitals said, the same day deadly explosions hit passenger vehicles in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
A spokesman for the capital’s commander said at least two people were injured in the blast on a mosque in Kabul. Emergency Hospital said in a tweet that it had received five bodies from the blast and more than a dozen wounded patients.
A Taliban official who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak with media said explosives had been placed inside the mosque’s pulpit and at least 11 people were dead.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks.
Growing violence in recent months has caused security challenges for the Taliban who took over the country in August as foreign forces withdrew. The Islamic State has claimed several attacks, often targeting the Shi’ia minority.
