Blast Tears Through Kabul Mosque, Killing at Least 5

Blast Tears Through Kabul Mosque, Killing at Least 5
A Taliban extremist stands guard at the venue for a flag hoisting ceremony of the Taliban flag on the Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul, on March 31, 2022. Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images
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KABUL—A blast tore through a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital 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.

A spokesman for the capital’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.