Six people were killed Friday after a car drove into a crowd in central China’s Hubei province.
The incident occurred around 6 a.m. local time in Zaoyang city. Seven other people were hospitalized in what police described as a “malicious car incident,” according to state broadcaster CCTV
Elsewhere, six people killed, and 23 wounded in an attack during celebrations to mark the Persian new year in Afghan Kabul.
The attacks came on Nowruz, an ancient Persian festival to mark the start of spring that is widely celebrated in Afghanistan but has also faced opposition from some hardline Islamists, who say it is un-Islamic.
There were conflicting reports about of the cause of the blasts near the Kart-e Sakhi shrine, in a heavily Shi’ite Muslim area in the west of Kabul.
An interior ministry spokesman said mortar bombs had been fired. The defence ministry said in a post on twitter that three rockets were fired at civilian homes and Nowruz gatherings.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the group’s news agency AMAQ said, without providing evidence of its claim.