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Reuters
Mohammad Yunus Yawar
Kabul — Hospital officials and witnesses said a bomb exploded on Saturday in a busy shopping street in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, injuring at least 22 people. Stated. The
explosion occurred in the western part of the city, where members of the minority Shiite Muslim community meet regularly.
Video footage posted online showed an ambulance rushing to the scene. This site is also near the bus stop.
A Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman said the investigation team was at the blast site to help the injured and assess the casualties.
The radical group immediately took responsibility for the attack ahead of Ashura in commemoration of the martyrdom of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, mainly marked by Shiites. Did not insist on. ite Muslims.
At least eight people were killed and 18 were injured in an explosion in Kabul on Friday by the Islamic State, a Sunni Islamic extremist group.
IS does not control any territory of Afghanistan, but has deadly sleeping cells targeting the Taliban patrols as well as religious minorities in the country.
Sunni Muslim Taliban authorities who hijacked Afghanistan after a 20-year riot last August said they would further protect Shiite mosques and other facilities.
Kabul's Shiite religion scholar Saeed Kasm Hojat said the Taliban government had strengthened security ahead of Ashura, but needed to be more vigilant against all threats.
No up-to-date population statistics are available, but it is estimated that the Shiite community in Afghanistan, including Persian-speaking Tajiks, Pashtuns, and Hazara, is 10 in a population of 39 million. ~ 20%. .. (Report by Kabul Newsroom, edited by Jason Neely, Andrew Heaven's, Mark Heinrick)
