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Twin blasts kill at least nine in northern Afghanistan
Two explosions, in a few minutes with each other, have killed at least nine people and injured 13 in North Afghanistan.
The explosion on Thursday is targeting two separate vehicles in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province. The victims of the attack traveled home to break their Ramadhan Fajar dawn, said Mohammad Asif Waziri, a spokesman for a police chief appointed by the TalibaThe ISIL group (ISIS) then claims to be responsible for attacks in a post on their telegram account.
The security of the Taliban covered the area and the population said that members of the Shia minority ethnic group seemed to be the target of the attack.
The attack was the latest from a series of deadly bombings to shake Afghanistan and came only a few days after the explosion at a Shia mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif which killed at least 12 worshipers and more scores were injured.
Separate bomb attacks in other mosques in the northern city of Kunduz last week targeted a minority Sufi community and killed at least 36 people in Friday prayers.
In another attack, also targeting Shia, two bombs exploded in a school in Kabul, killing six students.
Isil (ISIS) also said that his party carried out a mosque attack in Mazar-i-Sharif, but so far there was no group responsible for the bombing in Kunduz. The ISIL Regional Branch in Sunnis-priority Afghanistan has repeatedly targeted Shia and Minority such as Sufi.
Isil is a Sunni group, like the Taliban, but both are bitter rivals. Their biggest ideological difference is that the Taliban is only looking for Afghanistan who is free from foreign troops, while Isil wants what is called the Caliphate that stretches from Turkey to Pakistan and so on.
Shia Afghanistan, which mostly came from the Hazara community, formed between 10 and 20 percent of the Afghan population of 38 million.
