Attack on a mosque in Afghanistan | At least 80 dead

At least 80 people killed and 140 injured in explosive attack on mosque Shiite from the Afghan city of Kunduz, in the northeast of the country. The detonation occurred during midday prayer near the building, which was very busy, witnesses said.

“There was an explosion in a mosque of our Shiite compatriots in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz province, causing several deaths and injuries,” said Taliban spokesman Zabihulá Muhajid.

Images shared on social media showed several bloody bodies lying on the ground and a video of a man leading people, including women and children, away from the scene.

The second attack in a week

The attack comes after at least two people were killed in an explosion last Sunday near the entrance to a mosque in Kabul, where a funeral ceremony was taking place for the death of the mother of Taliban spokesman Mujahid .

The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack last Sunday, joining a series of attacks by the formation since the final withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan shortly before midnight on August 31.

These attacks left dozens of civilian and Taliban casualties, particularly in Kabul and the eastern state of Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan and an IS stronghold in Afghanistan.8