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A bombing inside a mosque in a northern Kabul neighborhood killed twelve worshippers and at least 15 more on Friday, Afghan police said.
Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said explosives had been placed inside the mosque in the Shakar Darah district beforehand.
An image circulating on social media showed three bodies lying on the floor of the mosque, which showed minor damage.
The mosque's imam is among the 12 killed, police said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion. Kabul police say an investigation is underway.
The explosion comes on the second day of a three-day ceasefire announced by the warring Taliban and Afghan government. The pause was for the Islamic festival Eid-al-Fitr, which follows the fasting month of Ramadan.
Until now many of the attacks in the capital have been claimed by the local Islamic State affiliate, but both the Taliban and government blame each other.
Deadly violence has rocked the country in recent weeks after the US military began formally withdrawing its remaining 2,500 troops from Afghanistan on May 1.
The most recent attack last week killed over 90 people, many of them pupils leaving a girls' school when a powerful car bomb exploded. The Taliban denied involvement and condemned the attack.
Just this week the last of the US troops left southern Kandahar Air Base, while some NATO troops still remained. At the war's peak more than 30,000 US troops were stationed in Kandahar, the Taliban heartland.
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