Blast hits Kabul mosque in neighborhood of inside ministry, kills 2

A blast hit a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital within the neighborhood of the closely fortified inside ministry compound on Wednesday, officers stated, killing no less than two individuals and wounding 18, in keeping with medics.

The authorities didn’t instantly say what brought about the explosion in Kabul, the place militants have carried out a lot of assaults in current months.

“The mosque was used by visitors and sometimes by interior ministry employees,” inside ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor stated.

Italian NGO assist group Emergency, which runs a hospital in Kabul, stated on Twitter it obtained 20 sufferers from the blast, two of whom had been useless on arrival.

The inside ministry compound is in a safe space subsequent to Kabul worldwide airport.

The ruling Taliban have stated they’ve secured the nation since taking up in 2021. But although widespread combating has ended, a collection of blasts have hit city centres in current months.

An explosion at an training centre in West Kabul on Friday killed 53 individuals, most of them younger girls, in keeping with the United Nations’ Mission to Afghanistan.