The attack happened during a prayer, to which local residents came with their whole families.
At least 33 people were killed and more than four dozen injured in a terrorist attack on Friday, April 22, in a mosque in the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan.
This is reported by aljazeera with reference to Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Taliban who seized power in the country.
“An explosion occurred in a mosque in the Imam Sahib district in Kunduz, killing 33 civilians, including children,” he said. , adding that another 43 people were injured.
Mujahid called the perpetrator of the attack in Kundug involved in “rebels and evil elements”, without specifying who exactly he had in mind.
The explosion at a mosque in Kunduz was another in a series of such attacks. Two days before the incident, an explosion at a Shiite mosque in Mazar Sharif killed at least 12 people and injured 58 more. The regional branch of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist organization claimed responsibility for this attack.
Despite the claims of the Taliban about the victory over the Islamic State, there is a branch of the Islamic State in Afghanistan with the Khorasan attribute. It covers the historical territory in Central Asia not only of today's Afghanistan, but of Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
ID-Khorasan adheres to a strict interpretation of Islamic law and often uses violent means of coercion to achieve its goals: public executions, killings of tribal elders or school closures. The main goal of this branch of the Islamic State is to make Khorassan a province of the Islamic State’s global caliphate.
Recall that in Afghanistan, armed militants who introduced themselves as the Taliban staged a shooting at a wedding so that they would not listen to music.
