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KABUL (REUTERS): Blasts hit two buses in western Kabul today (Saturday) killing at least seven people, an Afghan police spokesperson confirmed.
According to details, the explosions took place in a neighbourhood dominated by the minority Hazara community. Basir Mujahid, Kabul’s police spokesman, added that six people had also been wounded in Saturday’s blasts.
It was not immediately clear who was behind Saturday’s attacks. Violence has been rising as foreign forces withdraw from the country by Sept. 11 and efforts to broker a peace settlement between the Afghan government and insurgent Taliban have slowed.
The Hazara community has also been the target of a number of attacks from the Islamic State militant group. In May an unclaimed attack on a school in the area left around 80, mostly schoolgirls, dead.