At least two believers became victims of an explosion in a mosque in the Afghan capital, three more explosions thundered in passenger buses in a city in the north of the country.
On Wednesday, May 25, a series of explosions rocked Afghanistan. In the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, nine people were killed in terrorist attacks, and an explosion in a mosque in the capital Kabul claimed the lives of at least two people.
Al Jazeera reports.
As The Afghan Interior Ministry said two people were killed and 10 others injured after an explosion during evening prayers at a mosque in Kabul. According to the Kabul emergency hospital, the death toll is much higher – five people died in the mosque, another 22 were injured.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the number of deaths. According to eyewitnesses, several ambulances arrived at a mosque in Kabul to transport the victims of the explosion.
In the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in the north of the country, terrorists planted explosive devices inside passenger buses. The explosions killed nine people and injured 15.
“Bombs were placed on three minibuses in different parts of the city,” said Mohammad Asif Waziri, the Taliban-appointed speaker in Balkh province.
Responsibility for the attacks in Mazar-i-Sharif took ISIS. There is no information yet regarding the explosion in the mosque.
Let us recall that the radical Islamist movement “Taliban”, which seized power in Afghanistan last year, could not stop the expansion of the terrorist group “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”, whose militants are now present in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
