Afghanistan: Mass funeral held for victims of Kandahar mosque attack

On Saturday (October 17), relatives laid the bodies of the victims to rest and called on the Taliban to protect them.

Kabul: A mass funeral ceremony has been held for the victims killed in Friday`s suicide bomb attack at a Shia mosque in southern Afghanistan. At least 47 people have been killed and 70 other suffered injuries in an explosion inside a Shia mosque in Kandahar on Friday (October 15).

The attack also follows several other recent attacks against religious institutions in Afghanistan, including last week`s attack against the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in Kunduz.

On Saturday (October 17), relatives laid the bodies of the victims to rest and called on the Taliban to protect them, Al Jazeera reported.