KABUL – At least three people were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Fdriday in an explosion at a mosque in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
The blast happened in Spin Ghar district, a hotbed of activity for the terror outfit Islamic State (IS) since the Taliban regained power on August 15.
“I can confirm a blast during Friday prayers inside a mosque in Spin Ghar district. There are casualties and fatalities,” a Taliban official told AFP.
Earlier this month, 19 people were killed and 43 wounded when two explosions, followed by gunfire, hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in the capital Kabul.
The gunshots were also heard near the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan military hospital in the Afghan capital, according to witnesses and a government spokesman.
Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, told reporters that at least two blasts took place at the entrance of the 400-bed hospital in Kabul’s 10th district.
Witnesses said it was a car bomb. “Security forces are deployed to the area, there is no information about casualties,” he said on Twitter.
The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed its victory over the previous Western-backed government in August, undermining its claim to have restored security to Afghanistan after decades of war.
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