KABUL, May 9 (Xinhua) -- A senior religious official was killed and at least seven people wounded in a bomb attack in eastern Afghan province of Parwan on Tuesday, reported local media Tolo News.
"Chief of Provincial Ulema Council Abdul Rahim Shah Hanafi was killed following an Improvised Explosive Device attack inside a local Madrasa or seminary school Tuesday morning," Tolo News aired in its news bulletin.
The blast came when Hanafi was holding a class in the Madrasa in provincial capital Charikar city and the injured were local teenage students.
The injured were shifted to nearby hospital in the city, 55 km north of Kabul, where some of the wounded remained in critical condition.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet but officials frequently blame Taliban militant group for such attacks.
Afghan civilians continue to bear the brunt of armed conflicts as 715 civilians were killed and over 1,460 others injured in conflict-related incidents across Afghanistan in the first three months of the year, according to figures released by the United Nation mission in the country.
The mission has attributed 62 percent of the civilian casualties over the period to the Taliban and other insurgent groups, 21 percent to security forces while the rest 17 percent were unattributed to or caused by explosive remnants of war.
