Afghanistan: several explosions in a Shiite mosque kill 32

Explosions left at least 32 dead and 53 injured on Friday at noon in a Shiite mosque in the city of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, according to a medical source.

All the victims "were brought to Mirwais Hospital," a doctor at Kandahar Central Hospital said on condition of anonymity.

The explosion hit the Shiite place of worship, located in central Kandahar, at the time of the weekly Friday prayer.

"We are saddened to learn that an explosion took place in a mosque of the Shiite brotherhood (...) in the city of Kandahar, in which a number of our compatriots were killed and wounded," tweeted the spokesperson. Taliban word from Interior Ministry Qari Sayed Khosti.

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A witness, who requested anonymity, said he heard three explosions, one at the main door of the mosque, another in its southern part and the last where believers come to do their ablution.

About fifteen ambulances attended, while Taliban security forces were deployed around the site, access to which remained blocked.

Early images of the interior of the mosque, which could not be authenticated immediately, showed bloody bodies lying on the floor of the Fatemieh Mosque.

The ever-present terrorist threat

These explosions come exactly one week after a suicide bombing attack on a Shiite mosque in Kunduz in the northeast of the country, claimed by the Islamic State organization and which killed dozens of people.

The takeover of the country by the Taliban in mid-August did not end the terrorist threat, as the attack on August 26 near Kabul airport, which had already shown. more than a hundred dead and had been claimed by the Islamic State group.