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16.10.2021 | 14:42
Suicide bombers attacked a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least 35 people, the second week in a row that militants bombed Friday prayers and killed dozens of worshippers from the minority sect.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Friday’s attack in Kandahar, but Islamic State claimed the similar bombing a week earlier that killed scores of Shi’ites in the northern city of Kunduz.
Sardar Mohammad Zaidi, imam of the mosque, said there had been four attackers, two of whom blew themselves up at the entrance, allowing the other two to get inside where they detonated their explosives among around 3,000 worshippers just as Friday prayers were ending.
A health official at Kandahar’s Mirwais hospital told Reuters it had confirmed 35 dead and was treating 68 wounded.
