A suicide-bomb blast ripped through a wedding party on a busy Saturday night in Afghanistan\u2019s capital, killing 63 people and wounding 182 others, a government official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi said, the attacker set off explosives among the wedding participants. Both the Taliban and a local affiliate of the ISIS carry out bloody attacks in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAround 1,200 guests were invited to the wedding,\u201d said Ahmad Omid, a survivor who said the gathering was for his father\u2019s cousin. \u201cI was with the groom in the other room when we heard the blast and then I couldn’t find anyone. Everyone was lying all around the hall.\u201d Outside a local hospital, families wailed. \u201cThere are so many dead and wounded victims,\u201d Omid said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As per the officials, Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi said that there was no immediate information on the cause of the blast. The blast at the Dubai City wedding hall in western Kabul shattered a period of relative calm in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On August 7, a Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces detonated on the same road in a busy west Kabul neighborhood, killing 14 people and wounding 145, most of them women, children and other civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kabul\u2019s huge, brightly lit wedding halls are a center of community life in a city weary of decades of war, with thousands of dollars spent on a single evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The halls also serve as meeting places, and in November at least 55 people were killed after a suicide bomber sneaked into a Kabul wedding hall where hundreds of Muslim religious scholars and clerics had gathered to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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