Blast at Afghanistan Journalist Event Kills at Least 1, Injures 8

Blast at Afghanistan Journalist Event Kills at Least 1, Injures 8
Taliban extremists stand guard along a street in Kabul on Jan. 21, 2022. Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images
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KABUL—A blast hit a cultural centre during an event for journalists in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding eight, according to authorities and journalists, a few days after the province’s governor died in an explosion claimed by Islamic State.

“Today, at 11:30 a.m. an explosion occurred at the Tabyan Cultural Centre, in the second police district of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province ... the explosion happened due to a mine,” said Abdul Nafi Takor, spokesperson for the Taliban administration’s Ministry of Interior.