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Explosion in a mosque in Kabul, the deaths rise to over 50

2022-04-29T17:11:34.448Z


The explosion occurred at the Khalifa Saeb mosque in the center of the capital, where several ambulances immediately rushed to transport the victims to a nearby hospital. (HANDLE)


The death toll of the powerful explosion in a Sunni mosque in Kabul has risen to over 50 shortly after the weekly prayer on the last Friday of the Islamic month of Ramadan.

Al Arabiya reports, quoting the leader of the mosque.

The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib mosque in the western part of the capital in the early afternoon, said Besmullah Habib, deputy spokesperson for the interior ministry.

A first official toll spoke of 10 victims.

The explosion occurred at the Khalifa Saeb mosque in the center of the capital, where several ambulances immediately rushed to transport the victims to a nearby hospital.

Taliban fighters then prevented the press from entering the hospital.

A series of deadly bomb attacks, in which dozens of people have died, have hit the country in the last two weeks, during the holy month of Ramadan.

On April 21, a bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif (north), claimed by the Islamic State group (Isis), left at least 12 dead and 58 injured.

The next day, at least 36 people were killed in another bomb attack on a mosque frequented by Sufis during Friday prayers in Kunduz (northeast).

A few days earlier, explosions at a boys' school in a Shia neighborhood of Kabul killed six people.

Source: ansa

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