Kabul:

A blast tore via a mosque within the neighbourhood of Afghanistan’s inside ministry in Kabul on Wednesday, a spokesman mentioned.

Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafy Takor mentioned the explosion befell “in a mosque which is at a distance from the ministry of inside, the place guests and a number of the staff of the ministry pray”.

He didn’t give a sign of casualty figures or the precise distance from ministry grounds, however mentioned an investigation was ongoing.

The blast comes after a suicide bombing on Friday killed 53 folks in a Kabul classroom, together with 46 women and girls, in response to a UN dying rely.

Witnesses mentioned the attacker blew himself up within the ladies’s part of a gender-segregated classroom of a examine corridor within the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood — an enclave of the traditionally oppressed Shiite Hazara group.

No group has thus far claimed accountability for that assault, which Taliban authorities mentioned claimed solely 25 lives.

Nonetheless the jihadist group Islamic State which considers Shiites heretics has carried out a number of lethal assaults in the identical space focusing on ladies, colleges and mosques.

The Taliban have been additionally accused of plotting assaults on the Hazara group as they waged a two decade insurgency towards the outdated US-led regime which collapsed final August.

The hardcore Islamists’ return to energy in Afghanistan final 12 months introduced an finish to that insurgency and a dramatic decline in violence.

The Taliban motion — made up primarily of ethnic Pashtuns — has pledged to guard minorities and clamp down on safety threats.

Nonetheless assaults have ramped up in latest months.

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