Kabul - At least 10 people were killed, and scores wounded in a series of explosions across Afghanistan on Thursday, according to police and hospital officials.

The worst of the three attacks occurred in northern Mazar-e-Sharif where at least 10 worshippers were killed as they knelt in prayer, said Dr. Ghawsuddin Anwari, head of the main hospital in northern Mazar-e-Sharif. Another injured 40 were brought in ambulances and private cars.

The explosion at the Sai Doken mosque in northern Mazar-e-Sharif.

Earlier on Thursday in the capital, Kabul, a roadside bomb exploded and injured two children.

Two days earlier in the same area, multiple explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, mostly children, and wounded 17 others.

Thursday’s series of deadly explosions comes after months of relative calm in Afghanistan and a repercussion to the crackdown against the IS-K by the country’s Taliban rulers in the first months following their sweep to power.
-AP