A child was killed and several others injured in an explosion at the Cinema Pamir area in central Kabul on Wednesday, according to Khalid Zadran, spokesman for Taliban’s Kabul police.
While the Taliban did not provide details on the number of injured, Emergency Hospital in Kabul confirmed that 11 people, including children, were admitted following the blast. The explosion occurred around 2 p.m. in a busy section of the Lailami Market near the cinema.
Zadran said the individual responsible for transporting the explosives was arrested by Taliban forces, though no further information about the suspect has been released.
The hospital’s director earlier reported that one of the injured remains in critical condition.
Former President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack in a statement, calling it a “terrorist act.”
No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing so far.
This comes as an explosion in early August in the west of Kabul killed at least one civilian and wounded 13 others. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted the Shiite community in Kabul.
In another explosion on Sept. 2 near the Taliban-run Attorney General’s Office in Kabul’s Police District 6, at least six people were killed and 13 others were wounded.
