KABUL: Several explosions struck outside a ceremony in Kabul attended bythe country’s chief executive and the former president, both of whom wereunharmed, on Thursday, said, Afghan officials.

There was conflicting information as to the casualty figures.

An official with the city’s ambulance services, Mohammad Asim, said fivepeople were wounded in the explosions and were taken to local hospitals. Hesays more ambulances were at the site.

Another official, who was at the ceremony, said seven people were killedand 10 wounded. He spoke on condition of anonymity to reporters.

The ceremony commemorated the 1995 death of prominent minority Hazaraleader Abdul Ali Mazari who was killed by the Taliban. Afghanistan’s ChiefExecutive Abdullah Abdullah and former President Hamid Karzai attended thegathering.