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Afghan residents gather outside the Mellat boxing club, a day after an explosion took place at the site in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul on October 27, 2023. Two people died and nine others were injured in an explosion at a commercial centre in the Afghan capital on October 26, said police. The Islamic State jihadist group claimed on its Telegram channel Friday that it was behind a blast at a sports club that killed four people in the Afghan capital the night before.
Police were still investigating the cause of the explosion, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on Friday afternoon in a message to reporters. The explosion ripped through a sports club several floors up in the commercial centre, blowing out all the sides of the space and shattering windows and causing damage throughout the block, AFP journalists saw on Friday.
AFP journalists saw several heavy bags used for combat sport training on the floor of the club, others still hanging and pocked with fragments from the blast.
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