KABUL: A blast hit a masjid in Afghanistan’s capital in vicinity of heavily fortified interior ministry compound, officials said, martyred at least three people and wounding 18, according to medics.

Government did not immediately say what caused explosion in Kabul, where militants have carried out a number of attacks in recent months. “Masjid was used by visitors and sometimes by interior ministry employees,” interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor said. Italian NGO aid group Emergency, which runs a hospital in Kabul said on Twitter it received 20 patients from blast, two of whom were dead on arrival. Interior ministry compound is in a secure area next to Kabul International Airport. Ruling Taliban have said they have secured country since taking over in 2021. But though widespread fighting has ended, a series of blasts have hit urban centres in recent months.

An explosion at an education centre in West Kabul on Friday killed 53 people, most of them young women, according to United Nations’ Mission to Afghanistan.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 06 2022

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