At least 16 people were killed and 40 were injured in a series of explosions at a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city on Friday, TOLO News reported, citing local officials.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
Witnesses told TOLO News that three back-to-back blasts took place at the mosque during the Friday prayers. Members of the minority Shia community were praying at the mosque when the blast took place.
The attack followed a pattern as at least 50 people were killed in a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province last Friday. Members of Shia community prayed at this mosque too.
Shia Muslims make up around 10% of the Afghan population, according to AFP. Many of them belong to Hazara, an ethnic group that has faced persecution in Afghanistan for decades.
Interior ministry spokesperson of the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan Qari Sayed Khosti expressed grief on the incident, Al Jazeera reported.
“We are saddened to learn that an explosion took place in a mosque of the Shia brotherhood in the first district of Kandahar city in which a number of our compatriots were martyred and wounded,” Khosti said in a tweet
He added that the Taliban special forces had reached the area “to determine the nature of the incident and...
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