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Taliban officials say a series of explosions rocked Afghanistan on Wednesday, including an explosion inside a mosque in the capital Kabul, which killed at least five worshipers and three car bombings in the north of the country that killed nine passengers.
The Kabul Emergency Hospital said it had treated 22 people injured in the mosque blast, including five victims. According to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran, the blast occurred as worshipers were inside the mosque for evening prayers.
The minibuses were targeted in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif after explosive devices were placed inside the vehicles, according to Mohammad Asif Waziri, a Taliban-appointed spokesman in Balkh province. He said the blasts killed nine and injured 15 others.
All the victims in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif were Shiite Muslims, according to a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to give details to the media.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts, but they bore the hallmarks of the regional branch of the Islamic State group, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or IS-K.
The Islamic State branch, which has operated in Afghanistan since 2014, is seen as the biggest security challenge facing the Taliban. Since taking power last August, the Taliban have launched a full-scale offensive against IS headquarters in eastern Afghanistan.
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