At least 80 people were killed and 140 injured in an explosive attack on a mosque shiite from the Afghan city of Kunduz, in the northeast of the country. The detonation occurred during the noon prayer in the vicinity of the building, which was very crowded, according to witnesses.
“There was an explosion in a mosque of our Shiite compatriots in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz province, causing several deaths and injuries,” said Taliban spokesman Zabihulá Muhajid.
Images shared on social media showed several bloody bodies lying on the ground and a video of a man taking people, including women and children, away from the scene.
The second attack in a week
The attack comes after at least two people were killed in an explosion last Sunday near the entrance to a mosque in Kabul, where a funeral ceremony was taking place for the death of the mother of Taliban spokesman Mujahid.
The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack last Sunday, joining a series of attacks by the formation since the final withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan shortly before midnight on August 31.
These attacks left dozens of civilian and Taliban casualties, especially in Kabul and in the eastern state of Nangarhar, bordering Pakistan and an IS stronghold in Afghanistan.8
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