17 killed as four blasts tear through mini buses, Kabul Mosque

AFGHANISTAN: At least 17 people were killed and 37 injured after a blast tore through a Mosque in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and three blasts ripped through three mini buses in Northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday.

A spokesman for Kabul’s commander said at least two people were injured in the blast on a mosque in Kabul. Emergency hospital said in a tweet it had received five bodies from the blast and more than a dozen wounded patients.

A Taliban official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said explosives had been placed inside the Mosque’s pulpit and at least 11 people were dead.

Three blasts in Mazar-i-Sharif killed at least nine and injured 22, Mohammad Asif Wazeri, a spokesman for Balkh province’s commander told Agencies, adding the attacks targeted members of Shia community, who are a religious minority in Afghanistan. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks.

“The bombs were placed on three mini buses in different districts of the city,” Balkh Provincial Police Spokesman Asif Waziri said, adding that 15 other people were wounded. – THE HINDUSTAN TIMES