Latest News
Day 2 of ceasefire: blast hits Kabul mosque during Friday prayers
A bomb exploded on Friday inside a mosque in the Shakar Dara district of Kabul province, killing at least 12 people including the prayer leader Mufti Neman, the Interior Ministry said.
According to the Ministry, the blast took place at the Masjid-e-Bakhshi in the Qale Muradbek area of the district during the Friday prayers.
More than 20 people were also wounded in the explosion, Kabul police added.
Sources, meanwhile, told Ariana News that an IED planted at the Mihrab – a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the Qibla that is the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and where the imam leads prayers – was detonated.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.