At least nine people have been killed and 18 others injured in a bomb attack near a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n
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At least nine people have been killed and 18 others injured in a bomb attack near a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n
The casualties were caused after an attacker, who had been stopped at a nearby security checkpoint, set off an explosive device he was carrying, said Nasrat Rahimi, a deputy Interior Ministry spokesman.<\/p>\n
Rahimi said the assailant apparently sought to target crowds comprising members of Afghanistan\u2019s Shia Hazara community. They had gathered to commemorate Abdul Ali Mazari, a Hazara political leader killed by the Taliban militant group in 1995.<\/p>\n
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the deadly assault.<\/p>\n
The Hazara community, the poorest of the country\u2019s ethnic groups, accounts for about 22 percent of Afghanistan\u2019s population.<\/p>\n
Its members have been targeted in several large-scale kidnappings and killings across Afghanistan in the past, prompting demonstrations and sit-ins in Kabul and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
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