An explosion at a mosque in Afghanistan has killed at least 50 people
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An explosion at a mosque in Afghanistan has killed at least 50 people

An explosion at a mosque in Afghanistan has killed at least 50 people

A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.


The attack came as worshippers at the Sunni mosque gathered after Friday prayers for a congregation known as Zikr - an act of religious remembrance practised by some Muslims but seen as heretical by some hardline Sunni groups. A health source said hospitals had received 66 dead bodies and 78 wounded people so far.


The United States and the United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan condemned the attack, with the latter saying it was part of an uptick in violence in recent weeks targeting minorities and adding that at least two U.N. staff members and their families were in the mosque at the time of the attack. Emergency Hospital in downtown Kabul said it was treating 21 patients and two were dead on arrival.


A worker at another hospital treating attack patients said it had received 49 patients and around five bodies. Emergency Hospital said it had treated more than 100 patients wounded in attacks in Kabul in April alone. The latest attack came on the last Friday in the month of Ramadan in which most Muslims fast, and before the religious holiday of Eid next week. Last Friday, a blast tore through a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers in the city of Kunduz, killing 33.

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