Blast Kills More Than 50 At Kabul Mosque
Date
4/29/2022 3:20:03 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after
Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a
series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the
Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Trend reports citing Reuters .
The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the west of the
capital in the early afternoon, said Besmullah Habib, deputy
spokesman for the interior ministry, who said the official
confirmed death toll was 10.
The attack came as worshippers at the Sunni mosque gathered
after Friday prayers for a congregation known as Zikr - an act of
religious remembrance practised by some Muslims but seen as
heretical by some hardline Sunni groups.
Sayed Fazil Agha, the head of the mosque, said someone they
believed was a suicide bomber joined them in the ceremony and
detonated explosives.
'Black smoke rose and spread everywhere, dead bodies were
everywhere,' he told Reuters, adding that his nephews were among
the dead. 'I myself survived, but lost my beloved ones.'
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