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Afghanistan: Explosion during Eid prayers kills two, several wounded

Afghanistan: Explosion during Eid prayers kills two, several wounded

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An explosion rocked a town in the Nahrein district of Afghanistan's Baghlan province on Tuesday, news agency ANI reported quoting Afghan media. Two people have been killed, as many as 14 have been wounded.

As per reports, the explosion occurred while the prayers for Eid were undergoing.

This comes a day after a bomb tore through a bus in Kabul on Monday killing at least four people.

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The vehicle was taking workers home from a government watchdog agency ahead of the Eid holidays marking the end of Ramadan when the bomb exploded, news agency AFP reported.

On Sunday, two people got killed, with over a dozen wounded, as a wave of bombings hit civilian targets - including a university school bus - across the Afghan capital, AFP reported.

On Friday, a Taliban car bomber killed at least four Afghan civilians and lightly wounded four US troops in an attack on a US convoy in Kabul.

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A day earlier, at least six people were killed and 16 more wounded in an IS-claimed suicide blast outside a military academy in the capital.

And eight Afghan police were killed Saturday and seven others wounded in a suicide attack in the eastern city of Ghazni, provincial police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seerat told AFP.

(With inputs from agencies)