By Rukhshana Media
Two civilians were killed and seven others were wounded in twin explosions in a Hazara Shia neighborhood in the west of Kabul on Friday, according to an official and a hospital director.
Saeed Khosty, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Interior Ministry, confirmed to Rukhshana Media that in two separate explosions in the west of Kabul, two civilians were killed and four others, including a woman, have been injured.
The first explosion occurred when an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a van went off in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of Kabul, killing two civilians and wounding three others, according to Khosty. Meanwhile, another explosion nearby wounded a woman, said the Taliban’s spokesman.
But the number of wounded seems to be higher.
“Two dead bodies and seven wounded were transferred to our hospital,” said Eid Wali, director of Mohammad Ali Jennah hospital in the west of Kabul.
No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s explosions. In recent years, the Islamic State-Khorasan, the militant’s group’s Afghan branch, has increasingly targeted Shia neighborhoods in Afghanistan and carried out a string of deadly attacks on the Hazara ethnic minority.
