“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, advised The Washington Submit on Thursday. “The bomb blast occurred when the worshipers had been providing the night prayer the opposite day.”
“The regulation enforcement companies have been engaged on to arrest the perpetrators of the lethal assault and can be tried within the courtroom of regulation,” he added.
Emergency providers reported receiving 27 injured Wednesday evening, together with 5 youngsters.
Zabihullah Mujahid, appearing deputy data minister and a key spokesman of the Afghan Taliban, condemned the bomb blast within the mosque and added in a tweet Wednesday evening that “the killers and perpetrators of the blast might be arrested quickly and might be punished.”
Native residents mentioned the prayer chief, Amir Mohammad Kabuli, was an outspoken cleric and preacher not related to or in opposition to any group. “I’m not positive why and who focused Mawlawi, however he was a fantastic Islamic preacher and at all times spoke the reality,” mentioned a neighborhood 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, usually by the Islamic State.
Final week, Rahimullah Haqqani, one other distinguished 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.
