A suicide bomber has killed 25 people and injured at least 23 more in an attack on a Shia mosque in Afghanistan, an professional has told the BBC.
The attacker struck as folks were attending Friday prayers in the eastern city of Gardez, Paktia province spokesman Abdullah Asrat mentioned.
Some reviews counsel gunmen entered the mosque, establishing hearth on worshippers prior to detonating the explosives.
No workforce has but mentioned it carried out the assault.
There are fears the selection of useless and injured may just rise. Gen Raz Mohammad Mandozai, Paktia’s provincial police chief, instructed information agency AFP “around 50” people were injured.
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This is the most recent in a series of attacks on cities around the country.
On Tuesday, at least 15 other folks were killed in an attack on a government construction in Jalalabad, north-east of Gardez, whilst ELEVEN other people have been killed in the western province of Farah while a bus was hit by way of a roadside bomb in what was believed to be a Taliban attack, officers said.
The comparable day, 22 other people were abducted by unknown assailants from cars on a freeway linking Kabul and Gardez.
