It’s the second week operating that an assault has focused Friday prayers at a Shia mosque. The vast majority of Afghans follow Sunni Islam.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan officers in Kandahar have stated, 32 folks misplaced their lives and greater than 68 others have been wounded after three back-to-back explosions occurred inside Imam Bargah mosque (Shia) in first Police District of Kandahar metropolis this afternoon,” Bakhtar Information Company stated on Twitter.
Final week, 46 folks have been killed and scores wounded in a blast from a suicide bomber at one other Shia mosque within the northern Afghan metropolis of
Kunduz.
“Terrorism continues in Afghanistan with at the least 30 killed, scores injured, in suicide assault at Kandahar’s largest Shia mosque,” the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) stated of Friday’s assault.
The UN “condemns (the) newest atrocity focusing on a non secular establishment & worshippers. These accountable have to be held to account,”
the mission added on Twitter.
Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid additionally condemned the incident in a press release, and stated the perpetrators could be “delivered to justice.”
No declare of duty for Friday’s assault has but been made.
ISIS-Okay claimed duty for the Kunduz blast final Friday, in response to a press release launched by the group’s media wing, Amaq, in addition to for
another attack several days earlier on a mosque in central Kabul.
The fear group has launched a sequence of assaults for the reason that Taliban seized management of Afghanistan two months in the past. Others embrace a suicide assault at Kabul’s airport in August and a spate of bombings focusing on members of the Taliban within the jap Afghan metropolis of Jalalabad.
