...mindless ferocity in a turban...security officials.
The blast occurred in the Darwaza-e-Balkh area of Police District 4 in Mazar-e-Sharif at around 11:30 on Wednesday morning.
According to Mohammad Asif Waziri, the Taliban front man for the office of the chief of police in Balkh province, this explosion occurred when a person wanted to take explosives into the city.
The Taliban official, Waziri, further stated that the earth-shattering kaboom has not inflicted casualties; however, three people have been maimed as a result of the blast.
Some locals, nevertheless, maintained that there were more injuries as a result of this occurrence than the Balkh province Taliban authorities had reported.
According to the Public Health Head for Balkh province, Najibullah Tawana, the earth-shattering kaboom resulted in the injuries of six people who have been taken to the Balkh Provincial Hospital.
Social media videos made after the earth-shattering kaboom showed that several people had fallen on the ground and that locals were taking them to hospitals.
The blast on Wednesday in Mazar-e-Sharif, the latest to hit the country in the year since the Taliban took power, elicited no immediate claims of responsibility.
The Khorasan branch of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS-K) has claimed the majority of the responsibility for the recent rise in bombings in a number of Afghan provinces.