An explosion claimed by the Islamic State at a Shi’ite mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif killed at least 11 people, a health official says, one of a series of blasts around the country.
terrorist group at a Shi’ite mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday killed at least 11 people, a health official said, one of a series of blasts around the country.
“A blast happened in 2nd district inside a Shi’ite mosque,” Mohammad Asif Wazeri, the spokesman for theZia Zendani, the spokesman for the provincial health authority, said 11 people had been killed and 32 wounded in the blast. An interior ministry spokesman said a roadside blast had targeted a van of military mechanics in Kunduz and said students were among the wounded. He added another roadside blast in the capital, Kabul, had wounded three, including a child.
“Today more explosions rocks Afghanistan ... systematic targeted attacks on crowded schools and mosques calls for immediate investigation, accountability and end to human rights violations,” he said on Twitter.
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