Kabul, Aug 18 (TIWN) Several people were either killed or injured after an explosion ripped through a wedding hall in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the spokesman of Interior Ministry confirmed early Sunday.

Afghan officials said nearly 200 people were wounded in the blast on Saturday night. It happened at the Dubai City wedding hall, in a western neighbourhood of Afghanistan’s capital that is home to many in the minority Shia Hazara community.  A statement by the militant group posted on an Isis-linked website on Sunday said the attack was carried out by a Pakistani Isis fighter. The statement claimed that a car bomb was also detonated after the suicide bombing. Isis has claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks against the Hazara community since the militant group emerged in Afghanistan in 2014.