KABUL: A grenade blast during a match at Afghanistan’s main cricket stadium wounded four spectators and briefly halted the game on Friday, officials and police said.
The explosion happened at a match between Pamir Zalmi and Band-e-Amir Dragons in the country’s domestic T20 league, held at the Kabul International Cricket Stadium.
Hundreds of people were at the match on Friday, the weekly holiday in Afghanistan.
Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said the blast was caused by a grenade, adding that the game was halted for a few minutes.
It injured four spectators, said the Afghanistan Cricket Board’s chief executive Naseeb Khan.
"The players, staff members and foreigners are all safe," he said on Twitter, without offering details.
A top United Nations official, Ramiz Alakbarov, who was present at the stadium condemned the "atrocious attack," a UN statement said.
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