KABUL: The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for a blast that killed two people and wounded 14 others on a bus in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in Kabul on Saturday.

Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said the explosion occurred in the capital's Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood — an enclave of the historically oppressed Shiite Hazara community.

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