Friday morning there was a attack to a Shia mosque in Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan. The attack took place while Friday prayer was in progress: the official of a hospital in the city he said to Reuters that 35 people died and at least 68 were injured. A local reporter always quoted by Reuters he says that witnesses speak of three suicide attacks: one person would have blown himself up at the entrance to the mosque and two others would have operated the detonator inside it.
For now, the attack has not been claimed by any group. According to the correspondent of BBC in Afghanistan, Secunder Kermani, there is a strong suspicion that the attack was carried out by members of theISIS-K, the Afghan division of the Islamic State.
Expecting IS-K to again claim responsibility for another awful bombing targeting Shias
With the first major attack in the north (Kunduz last Friday), and now Kandahar in the south, it would seem IS-K is branching out… previously attacks largely centred around Kabul / east Afg https://t.co/BMij9HcqJY
– Secunder Kermani (@SecKermani) October 15, 2021
A similar attack last Friday had killed dozens of people in a Shiite mosque in the city of Kunduz, in the north-east of the country.
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