Online desk: A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing 46 people and wounding more than 140 others.
Video footage showed bodies surrounded by debris inside the mosque that is used by people from the minority Shia Muslim community, reports Reuters citing state-run Bakhtar news agency.
People carry the body of a victim from a mosque following a bombing in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, Friday. (AP)
No group immediately claimed responsibility. The blast follows several attacks, including one at a mosque in Kabul, in recent weeks, some of which have been claimed by the Sunni Muslim militants of the Islamic State.
The attacks have underscored security challenges for the Taliban, which took over the country in August and have since carried out operations against Islamic State cells in Kabul.
“This afternoon, an explosion took place in a mosque of our Shia compatriots … as a result of which a number of our compatriots were martyred and wounded,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter.
The blast occurred in a Shiite mosque in Kunduz province during the weekly Friday prayer service. (AP)
Bakhtar news agency, run by the ministry of information, said 46 people were killed and 143 wounded in the blast.
