According to the Taliban administration, two persons were killed and four more were injured in two separate bomb explosions in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital.
Two civilians were killed and three others were injured after a bomb exploded on a minibus in Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi area on Friday, according to the Taliban’s interior ministry spokesman Sayed Khosti.
A woman was injured in another blast in the same neighbourhood, according to Khosti.
The attacks were not immediately claimed as a result of a claim of responsibility.
Dasht-e-Barchi is primarily Shia Hazara, who have been the target of violence by the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K), an affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group, for years.
A similar bombing on a minibus in Dasht-e-Barchi killed two people and injured five more in November. The ISKP claimed responsibility for the incident.
The ISKP claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a Shia mosque in Kandahar in October that killed at least 60 people and injured dozens more.
That incident came just a week after the organisation claimed responsibility for another fatal mosque blast in northern Kunduz province, which killed more than 60 people.
The Taliban has threatened to assault the armed group’s hideouts, particularly in the south and east of the nation.
The bus explosion on Friday was the first in some weeks to result in a fatality.
In August, the Taliban reclaimed control, 20 years after being deposed by a US-led military assault in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. President Ashraf Ghani’s Western-backed administration fell apart during the final stages of the US army pullout in August.
