[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]Several days after the provincial governor was killed in an explosion that the militant Islamic State claimed responsibility for, a blast struck a cultural centre in northern Afghanistan during an event for journalists on Saturday, killing eight people, including five journalists, according to authorities and journalists.
According to Abdul Nafi Takor, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior under the Taliban government, an explosion occured at the Tabyan Culture Centre at 11:30 a.m. today in the second police district of Mazar-i-Sharif in the Balkh region.
Takor stated that a security guard was also killed, along with five journalists, three children, and other casualties.
Who was responsible for the explosion was not immediately known.
A journalist from Balkh who was hurt in the explosion, Sajad Mosawi, claimed it occurred amid a celebration of journalists and tore through the centre.
The bomb that killed province governor Mawlawi Mohammad Dawood Muzamil and two other people at his office on Thursday was already being looked into by Taliban authorities.
According to his spokesperson Haji Zaid, the governor of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar will serve as acting governor of Balkh until Supreme Spiritual Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada appoints a new governor for the northern region, which serves as a crucial trade route to Central Asia.
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