Blast hits Kabul mosque, 4 killed

A blast hit a mosque in Afghanistan's capital in the vicinity of the heavily fortified interior ministry compound yesterday, officials said,killing at least four people and wounding 18, according to medics. The government did not immediately say what caused the explosion in Kabul, where militants have carried out a number of attacks in recent months. "The mosque was used by visitors and sometimes by interior ministry employees," interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor said.