KABUL: During weekday prayers at a Kabul masjid, a powerful explosion killed over fifty attendees, according to the masjid’s head, amid a spate of strikes on civilian targets in the Asian nation during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The incident occurred in the early afternoon at the Khalifa European masjid in the capital’s west, according to Bismillah Habib, deputy spokesperson for the interior ministry. The official verified toll was 10, according to the World Health Organization.
The incident occurred as worshipers gathered at the masjid for daily prayers for a congregation known as Zikr. Someone they thought was a terrorist joined them inside the event and ignited explosives, according to Sayed Fazil Agha, the masjid’s chairman.
He told Reuters that “black smoke erupted and unfolded everywhere, dead corpses were everywhere,” and that his nephews were among the deceased.
“I survived, but I lost my loved ones,” he explained. Residents’ prophet Sabir claimed to have witnessed people being placed into ambulances.
“The boom was so powerful that I thought my eardrums were cracking,” he claimed.
The Emergency Hospital in downtown Kabul reported it was treating twenty-one people who had been injured in the bomb, two of whom were dead when they arrived. A nurse at another hospital, who did not want to be identified by the World Health Organization, said it had received numerous wounded in critical condition. A health supply aforesaid hospitals had received a least of thirty bodies in total up to this time.
In recent weeks, a number of Afghan civilians have been murdered in bombings, some of which have been claimed by Deash. The most recent incident occurred on the last weekday of Ramadan, when most Muslims fast, and just before the Eid festival next week.
Since gaining control in August, the religious organisation claims to have safeguarded the country and, for the most part, eradicated Daesh’s domestic consequences; nonetheless, foreign officials and experts think the possibility of a rise in aggression exists.The Shiah have been targeted in many of the attacks, although Sunni mosques have also been targeted.On a weekday, bombs burst onboard two passenger vans carrying Shias in the northern town of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing at least nine people. Last week, during weekday prayers in Kunduz, an explosion ripped through a Sunni musjid, killing 33 people.
Edited By: Khushi Thakur
Published By: Mohammed Anees
