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KABUL (Reuters) -A blast tore by way of a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing and wounding many individuals, Taliban officers mentioned.
Video footage confirmed our bodies surrounded by particles contained in the mosque that’s utilized by folks from the minority Shi’ite Muslim neighborhood.
No group instantly claimed duty. The blast adopted a number of assaults, together with one at a mosque in Kabul, in latest weeks, a few of which have been claimed by the Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State.
One Taliban official, talking on situation of anonymity, mentioned a minimum of 28 folks had been killed and dozens extra wounded in Friday’s blast.
The assaults have underscored safety challenges for the Taliban, which took over the nation in August and have since carried out operations towards Islamic State cells in Kabul.
“This afternoon, an explosion passed off in a mosque of our Shiite compatriots … on account of which quite a few our compatriots have been martyred and wounded,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid mentioned on Twitter (NYSE:).
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