Kabul shook after Friday prayers; At least 4 killed
At least four people were killed and 10 injured in an explosion near a mosque in Kabul minutes after the end of Friday prayers. Reuters news.
The incident took place a few minutes after Friday (September 23) Friday prayers. A local hospital later told AFP the number of casualties.
The Italian private organization 'Emergency', which is in charge of managing the local hospital, said in a Twitter message, "We have received reports of 14 casualties in the explosion." Four of them died on reaching the hospital.
Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran confirmed the explosion and casualties but did not provide details.
It is known that the explosion took place in Wazir Akbar Khan area of Kabul. Earlier it was the 'green zone' of the city where foreign embassies and NATO offices were located. But the area is now controlled by the ruling Taliban.
Earlier, in 2020, the imam of that mosque was killed in a bomb blast in the same mosque.
Incidentally, after the Taliban's return to power, overall violence across Afghanistan has decreased significantly, but Kabul and other cities are regularly bombed. In early September, two embassy staff were killed in a suicide bombing outside the Russian embassy.
