Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say
India Today
According to a Taliban official, a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people.
A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's deputy culture and information minister, said the bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, also wounded another 43 people, many of them students.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, but Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate on Friday claimed a series of bombings that happened a day earlier, the worst of which was an attack on a Shiite mosque in northern Mazar-e-Sharif that killed at least 12 Shiite Muslim worshippers and wounded scores more.
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Earlier the Kunduz provincial police spokesman put the death toll at the Malawi Bashir Ahmad Mosque and madrassa compound in Imam Saheb at two dead and six injured. Mujahid later tweeted the higher casualty numbers tweeting “we condemn this crime...and express our deepest condolences to the victims”.
Friday's bombing is the latest in a series of deadly attacks across Afghanistan. Mujahid called the perpetrator's of the Kunduz attack “seditionists and evil elements”.
The United Nations called the attack “horrific”. Deputy special representative to Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov said in a tweet that “killings must stop now and perpetrators brought to justice”.
