{"id":10249,"date":"2022-05-26T01:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2022-05-26T01:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:34:27","slug":"blast-in-a-kabul-mosque-kills-five-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/05\/blast-in-a-kabul-mosque-kills-five-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast in a Kabul mosque kills five people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211;\u00a0A blast tore through a mosque in the capital Kabul on Wednesday evening, killing at least five people, authorities and hospitals said, the same day deadly explosions hit passenger vehicles in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">A spokesman for the capital&#8217;s commander said at least two people were injured in the blast on a mosque in Kabul. Emergency Hospital said in a tweet that it had received five bodies from the blast and more than a dozen wounded patients, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacing-container__container__2g5QT spacing-container__max-width__zScFd\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__container__FEnoz\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__inner__2u45U ad-slot__native__3CLmN\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"reuters_desktop_native_1\" class=\"ad-slot__slot__2lKAK\" data-google-query-id=\"CJKI7qqB_PcCFYmScAodwHgBKg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4735792\/reuters.com\/world\/apac\/article_1__container__\">\n<div class=\"__fs-ancillary\">\n<div id=\"__fs-reportThisAd-reuters_desktop_native_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">According to the report, explosives had been placed inside the mosque pulpit and 14 people were dead, including the mosque&#8217;s imam, and that 26 were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">Three blasts in northern Balkh province killed at least 15 people and injured 10, according to a health official in Balkh Province. He added that eight of the injured were in critical condition and several had had legs amputated. Mazar-i-Sharif is the provincial capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Mohammad Asif Wazeri, a spokesman for Balkh province commander, told Reuters that the three blasts targeted members of the Shi&#8217;ia community, who are a religious minority in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211;\u00a0A blast tore through a mosque in the capital Kabul on Wednesday evening, killing at least five people, authorities and hospitals said, the same day deadly explosions hit passenger vehicles in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,5,4,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peace","category-security_","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":287,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}