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Twenty Injured in Hand Grenade Attack on Wedding in Eastern Afghanistan

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Twenty Injured in Hand Grenade Attack on Wedding in Eastern Afghanistan

11:05 GMT 26.01.2020 (Updated: 20:38 GMT 19.10.2022)

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KABUL (Sputnik) - The Afghan government has been engaged in a struggle with various insurgent and militant groups affiliated with terrorist organisations such as al-Qaeda* and Daesh**.

Twenty people have sustained injuries in a hand grenade attack on a wedding ceremony in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, the provincial police spokesman Adil Haider said on Sunday.

According to Haider, an unknown person threw a grenade on a wedding ceremony in Ali Sher district at around 10:00 p.m. (17:30 GMT) on Saturday. A child is among those injured.

20 تن در انفجار بم دستی در یک مراسم عروسی در #خوست زخمی شدند
عادل حیدر سخنگوی پولیس خوست می‌گوید: « شب گذشته در منطقه وارث ولسوالی علی شیر در یک هوتل عروسی بم دستی پرتاب شده که در نتیه آن 20 غیرنظامی زخمی شده اند.»
پولیس خوست و مردم محل، تروریستان را عامل این رویداد می دانند. pic.twitter.com/Wl2BMMU7vh
— سنگین شاه (@Sangeen111) January 26, 2020

He added that all those injured were taken to the Khost Civil Hospital, with three of them in critical condition.

Police have launched an investigation into the attack.

*al-Qaeda is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia

**Daesh (ISIL/ISIS/IS/Islamic State) is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia