“With excessive grief, I’m going to say that 21 folks had been martyred and 33 others injured in bomb blast in a mosque,” Khalid Zadran, a spokesman of the Kabul police, instructed The Washington Publish on Thursday. “The bomb blast occurred when the worshipers had been providing the night prayer the opposite day.”
“The regulation enforcement businesses have been engaged on to arrest the perpetrators of the lethal assault and could be tried within the court docket of regulation,” he added.
Emergency providers reported receiving 27 injured Wednesday night time, together with 5 kids.
Zabihullah Mujahid, appearing deputy info minister and a key spokesman of the Afghan Taliban, condemned the bomb blast within the mosque and added in a tweet Wednesday night time that “the killers and perpetrators of the blast can be arrested quickly and can be punished.”
Native residents stated the prayer chief, Amir Mohammad Kabuli, was an outspoken cleric and preacher not related to or towards any group. “I’m not certain why and who focused Mawlawi, however he was a terrific Islamic preacher and all the time spoke the reality,” stated an area resident, utilizing the preacher’s honorific.
He spoke on the situation of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the scenario and added that many students like Kabuli had been focused earlier than the Taliban took over, typically by the Islamic State.
Final week, Rahimullah Haqqani, one other outstanding cleric linked to the Taliban was killed in a bomb blast.
The wave of assaults linked to the Islamic State’s department within the nation is the primary actual sustained problem to the Taliban because it took over the nation a 12 months in the past. The group seems to have expanded its presence all through the nation because the U.S. forces pulled out.
Taliban authorities have repeatedly vowed to crush the group.