Afghanistan: ISIS claims responsibility for attack on Shiite mosque in Kandahar

The explosions that occurred Friday during the weekly prayer left at least 41 dead and 70 injured.

The Islamic State – Khorasan (IS-K) terrorist group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed at least 41 people during prayers on Friday, October 15 in a Shiite mosque in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. “About 70 people” were also injured in the explosions, Hafiz Abdulhai Abbas, head of health in Kandahar, told AFP.

In a statement published on the Telegram channels of the jihadist organization, the group claims that two suicide bombers carried out separate attacks inside this mosque. “The first suicide bomber detonated his explosive jacket (…) in a hallway of the mosque, while the second suicide bomber detonated his explosive jacket in the center of the mosque”, specifies the press release.

Taliban police chief in Kandahar, Maulvi Mehmood, told a press conference “strongly condemn the attack” and assured that “All the services” of security “are at work to find the people involved and punish them”. This is the first IS-K attack in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. The attack comes exactly one week after another deadly suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in Kunduz, in the northeast of the country, also claimed by the jihadist organization Islamic State.

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