An enormous explosion has ripped through a mosque within the Afghan capital Kabul, police say.
The blast is definitely thought to have happened during evening prayers, killing at least 3 people and hurting dozens more, based on the NGO Emergency.
Khalid Zadran, the Taliban’s Kabul police speaker, was quoted simply by local media since saying there had been an explosion within the city’s north-west.
Reports say the Siddiqi mosque’s imam has been among the dead.
It really is unclear who was at the rear of the attack, which usually comes the 7 days after a prominent pro-Taliban cleric was killed within a suicide bomb blast , also within Kabul. The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for that earlier attack.
Security forces have arrived at the scene, inside a northern Kabul neighbourhood, the spokesman added.
Italian NGO Emergency – which operates in Kabul – said three deaths have been recorded so far.
The NGO also tweeted to say it got received 27 people wounded in the great time, including children. “Five children [were] among them, including a seven-year-old, inch it said.
A Taliban cleverness official told information agency Reuters that will as many as 35 people may have been wounded or even killed, and the toll could rise additional.
Witnesses described hearing a powerful exploding market which shattered home windows in nearby buildings.
The official, who talked on condition associated with anonymity, said the particular explosion took place in a mosque among worshippers in the Khair Khana area of Kabul.
Cleverness teams were on the blast site and investigations are on-going, they added.
A spokesman for the Taliban said it highly condemned the strike.
IS focus seems to be widening
The mosque was crowded, the bomb powerful, and one more cleric seems to have been in the sights associated with IS (Islamic State), the group which has emerged as the Taliban’s most potent enemy.
In the past 30 days, three prominent spiritual leaders were targeted in Kabul and there were assassinations consist of cities.
Last week it had been Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, known to be close to the Taliban. This time it’s Amir Muhammad Kabuli, said to be an adherent of the more moderate Sufi faith.
Video posted on social media showed a scene of carnage.
A single religious student who was just outside the mosque told the BBC he saw the particular bodies of the dead and injured sprawled inside, including kids attending evening prayers.
IS’s signature continues to be its devastating assaults on the minority Shia Hazara community. However focus now appears to be widening just as the particular Taliban celebrate their own one year in strength – a takeover which ended a single chapter of a long bloody war yet only ushered in yet another.
