An explosion ripped via Khalifa Aga Gul Jan Mosque in Kabul on Friday, killing a minimum of 10 other people and wounding 20.
An explosion ripped via Khalifa Aga Gul Jan Mosque in Kabul on Friday, killing a minimum of 10 other people and wounding 20. (Photograph: Reuters/Document)
A formidable explosion ripped via a mosque within the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, killing a minimum of 10 other people and wounding 20, a Taliban spokesman stated.
Masses of worshippers had accrued for prayers at the remaining Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramdan and the Khalifa Aga Gul Jan Mosque was once packed, stated native citizens, fearing the casualty toll may just upward push additional.
The Taliban-appointed inner ministry spokesman, Mohammad Nafi Takor, may just no longer supply extra main points and Taliban safety males cordoned off the realm. The supply of the explosion was once no longer right away identified and no person has claimed duty for the blast.
The explosion was once so loud that the community of the mosque shook from the blast, the citizens stated, talking on situation of anonymity, fearing for their very own protection.
Ambulances raced to the website online, using as much as the top of a slender side road in an jap community of Kabul to succeed in the mosque, which belongs to Afghanistan’s majority Sunni Muslims.
The explosion was once the most recent in a chain of such blasts amid relentless assaults around the nation. Identical assaults on mosques have lately centered the rustic’s minority Shiite Muslims and had been claimed by way of the Islamic State staff’s regional associate, referred to as Islamic State in Khorasan Province or IS-Ok.
IS has stepped up its assaults throughout Afghanistan to turn into the main enemy of the Taliban since their takeover of the rustic remaining August.
Kabul’s Italian-run EMERGENCY health facility, which treats handiest the war-wounded, tweeted that its group of workers reported the ability has admitted a minimum of “20 wounded other people” following the explosion.
Ultimate week, 33 Shiite worshippers died within the northern town of Mazar-e-Sharif, when a bomb struck their mosque and an adjoining non secular college. IS has claimed duty for that assault.
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