Bomb blast kills 1, wounds 11 in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul 

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People gather to check on missing relatives a day after a twin suicide bombs attack, which killed scores of people including 13 US troops outside Kabul airport, at a hospital run by Italian NGO Emergency in Kabul on August 27, 2021. (AFP/File)
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  • Blast went off on a minibus in western Kabul neighborhood home to many Shia Muslims 
  • There was no immediate claim of responsibility for bombing by any militant group 

KABUL: A bomb blast on a minibus in a religious-minority neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital killed one person and wounded 11 others on Sunday, a Kabul police spokesman said.

The blast went off in a western Kabul neighborhood home to many Shia Muslims — a historically persecuted minority in Afghanistan and a frequent target of the Daesh group, which considers them heretics.

“An IED (improvised explosive device) was planted on a minibus in the Dasht-e-Barchi area,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said in a statement, adding an investigation was underway.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, which took place around 4 p.m. (1130 GMT).

While the number of deadly bomb blasts and suicide attacks in Afghanistan has markedly declined since the Taliban ended their insurgency after seizing power in August 2021, a number of armed groups, including IS, remain a threat. 

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