An explosion was fired in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, near the voter registration centre, as 1TV reports referring to the sources in the health authorities.
According to the message, the incident happened in the western part of Kabul in the morning today. The cause of the explosion is unknown. At least six people were injured.
As Hashmat Stanikzai, city police spokesperson, informed 1TV medical workers and police officers arrived at the incident site. None of the groupings in the region has taken responsibility for the explosion.
Meanwhile, some mass media report on possible casualties on Twitter.
4 people were killed and 15 wounded in #Kabul PD6 blast near to voter registration center.#Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/tRMYy9EOfV
— Pajhwok Afghan News (@pajhwok) April 22, 2018
It is remarkable that it is not the first tragic incident happened in the country recently. The members of Taliban radical movement kidnapped three staff members of Afghan electoral committee from the voter registration centre in Ghor province.
The parliamentary elections and elections to the district councils are to be held in October 2018, the voters’ registration started on April 14.
After the voters’ registration started, Ashraf Ghanī, the President of Afghanistan, offered Taliban radical movement to return to the peace process as a political movement and participate in the elections, but they refused.
