Blast hits Shi'ite mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing least 11
The brother of Ezmarai Ahmadi, a civilian wrongly identified as an Islamic State militant and killed in a US drone strike, stands next to the wreckage of a vehicle that was damaged in the strike in the Kwaja Burga neighborhood of Kabul on Sept. 18. HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy
Eleven people were killed or wounded in a blast in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, a health official said on Thursday.
Najeebullah Sahel, from the provincial health authority, said hospitals had received the casualties from a blast and that the numbers could increase, but did not elaborate on the location or cause of the explosion.
Earlier on Thursday another blast tore through a Shi'ite mosque in the northern city of Mazar-E-Sharif, killing at least five.
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