ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack carried out two days ago in a mosque in Kabul which resulted in over 50 deaths and at least 22 injuries. The explosion occurred shortly after Friday prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan in the Sunni Khalifa Sahib mosque in the western part of the Afghan capital.
"The explosion occurred two hours after Friday prayers, while the faithful were performing rituals" in the mosque in the center of the capital, said the ministry's deputy spokesman, Bismillah Habib.
According to the leader of the mosque, Sayed Fazil Agha, a suicide bomber approached the group of faithful during prayer and then blew himself up .
The Taliban, through spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, condemned the explosion, stating that the perpetrators will be found and punished.
THE OTHER ATTACKS - Also two days ago, the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Province of Khorasan ( Iskp, Afghan branch of Isis ), claimed responsibility for the two explosions on board as many minibuses in which at least nine people died in Mazar-i-Sharif . Last week a Shiite mosque in the same city was gutted by a deadly attack that killed at least 12 people, and which was also claimed by the ISKP.
At least 36 people were killed in another attack on a mosque in Kunduz (northeast). A few days earlier, a bomb in a boys' school in a Shia neighborhood of Kabul killed six people.
(Unioneonline / D)
