Blast close to Kabul mosque after Friday prayers kills at the very least seven individuals

At least seven individuals have been killed and greater than 40 injured on Friday by a blast close to a mosque within the Afghan capital which struck as worshippers have been streaming out of afternoon prayers, police stated.

The explosion was the most recent in a lethal sequence focusing on Friday prayers at mosques in current months, a few of them claimed by the militant group Islamic State.

“After prayers, when people wanted to come out from the mosque, a blast happened,” stated Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran. “All casualties are civilians.”

He later confirmed the demise toll was seven, together with youngsters, and stated 41 individuals had been injured.

Italian-NGO run Emergency Hospital stated it had acquired 14 individuals damage by the explosion, of whom 4 have been useless on arrival.

“Feeling appalled by today’s Kabul blast and learning about … (casualties) this detonation has caused,” Raffaella Iodice, the deputy head of the European Union’s Delegation to Afghanistan stated in a tweet.

The explosion came about in Wazir Akbar Khan, an space previously dwelling to town’s “green zone” – the situation of many overseas embassies and NATO – however now managed by the ruling Taliban.

The mosque has been focused prior to now, together with a blast in June 2020 – earlier than the Taliban returned to energy – that killed its imam and wounded a number of individuals.