The blast happened in a western district where the minority Shia Muslim community regularly meet
A bomb exploded in a busy shopping street in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday injuring at least 22 people, hospital officials and witnesses said.
No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which came ahead of Ashura, a commemoration of the martyrdom of Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad, which is marked mainly by Shia Muslims.
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