Reuters.- An explosion ripped through a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing and wounding many people, the Taliban reported.
The video footage showed bodies surrounded by rubble inside the mosque, used by people from the Shiite minority Muslim community.
No group immediately claimed responsibility. The explosion followed several attacks in recent weeks, including one on a Kabul mosque, some of which have been claimed by Sunni Muslim militants of the Islamic State.
A Taliban official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said at least 28 people had been killed and dozens more injured in Friday’s blast.
The attacks have exposed the security problems of the Taliban, who took control of the country in August and have since carried out operations against Islamic State cells in Kabul.
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“This afternoon an explosion took place in a mosque of our Shiite compatriots … as a result of which several of our compatriots have been killed or injured,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter.
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