Kabul: Four people, including two police officers, were killed and four others wounded in separate explosions in Kabul, marking the latest in a series of bomb attacks in the Afghan capital city, a government spokesperson confirmed.
“Four killed and four wounded, including two security forces members, were transported by Kabul Ambulance Service to hospitals following explosions in Kabul on Saturday morning,” Masooma Jafari, a spokesperson of the Public Health Ministry, told reporters.
The blasts, which occurred in Police District 3, 6, 8 and Deh Sabz, a district on the eastern outskirts of the city, were all caused by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks so far.
Saturday explosions come after a civilian and four employees of the country’s main prison, including two female doctors, were killed and two other injured in an improvised bomb explosion in PD 7 on Tuesday.
On the same day, an army colonel and teacher of the Kabul military university was shot and killed by gunmen in PD 12.
In a report earlier this week, the Interior Ministry on Sunday claimed that 28 civilians were killed and 47 others injured in blasts across the country from December 17-20.
According to the Ministry, a total of 37 suicide attacks and 510 blasts have killed nearly 500 civilians and injured more than 1,050 others over the past three months in Afghanistan.
A total of 2,117 civilians had been killed and 3,822 injured from January 1 to September 30 this year, according to a report of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released in October.