Guwahati: As many as 20 were killed and around 40 more have sustained injuries in a massive explosion at a mosque in the north of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Wednesday.
According to reports, the blast occurred during evening prayers in a mosque in the Khair Khana area.
Witnesses claim that the loud explosion was heard in a neighbourhood in northern Kabul and caused neighbouring buildings’ windows to break. Ambulances were then rushed to the spot.
There was no official claim of responsibility, the latest attack to hit the nation in the year since the Taliban seized power, Among the dead is a top Islamic cleric named Amir Mohammad Kabuli. A resident of the city’s Kher Khanna neighbourhood where the Siddiquiya Mosque was targeted said that the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.