A big explosion tore by means of a Shi’ite mosque within the southern Afghan metropolis of Kandahar throughout Friday prayers, killing a minimum of seven folks and wounding 13, officers and provincial leaders mentioned.
Qari Saeed Khosti mentioned authorities had been amassing particulars of the explosion, which occurred days after a suicide bomb assault claimed by Islamic State on a Shi’ite mosque within the northern metropolis of Kunduz that killed scores of individuals.
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Photographs posted by journalists on social media confirmed many individuals apparently useless or critically wounded on the ground of the mosque.
Nematullah Wafa, a former member of the provincial council, mentioned the blast occurred on the Imam Bargah mosque and precipitated heavy casualties however there have been no fast affirmation of the variety of useless and wounded.
There was no fast declare of accountability.
The blast, coming so quickly after the Kunduz assault underlined the more and more unsure safety in Afghanistan as Islamic State has stepped up operations following the Taliban victory over the Western-backed authorities in Kabul in August.
