At least two people have been killed and 16 others injured as an explosion rocked a mosque full of people during Friday prayers in the Afghan capital Kabul, according to the interior ministry.
“We have rushed ambulances to the blast site,” said a senior official in Kabul. “The mosque was filled with many men praying.”
One of the people killed in the attack has been confirmed as well-known religious scholar imam Mawlawi Samiullah Raihan.The cleric was known for supporting the Western-backed Afghan government, which is opposed by Taliban militants. The bomb was apparently planted in the microphone used by the imam, according to Jan Agha, a district police official.
The death toll could rise according to another official.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban and the Islamic state group are well-known for similar attacks in Kabul.
The district where the explosion happened is dominated by ethnic Pashtuns, most of whom are Sunni Muslims, who make up the majority of the Taliban group.
Earlier a blast in a mosque in Pakistan’s city of Quetta killed one and injured seven.
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