Last Updated on June 3, 2020, 7:36 AM AST by Anthony Morris
An Afghan official said that a bomb explosion inside a mosque in the capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul on Tuesday.
The said bomb explosion in the mosque has killed two people, including the mosque’s prayer leader, and has wounding two others.
The spokesman for the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan, Tariq Arian, said that the bomb had targeted the Wazir Akber Khan Mosque at around 7:25 pm when the worshippers had gathered for the evening prayers.
The said mosque is located in a high-security diplomatic area near to the offices of several international organizations and embassies.
Arian added that Mullah Mohammad Ayaz Niazi was one of two people who were killed in the attack. He was wounded in the attack, and later he died at a hospital.
Niazi was a well-known cleric, and he was active as a Friday prayer leader at the mosque. Niazi was also a professor in the Islamic Law department at the Kabul University.
A spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Sediq Sediqqi, has tweeted that the government condemned the attack strongly, saying that it reveals the brutality and inhumanity of those people who purposefully perpetrate violence against the Ulema as well as the innocent people.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack immediately. Still, the Islamic State group has been active in Kabul in the recent weeks and has carried out attacks inside mosques in Afghanistan in the past.
The Taliban insurgents have never attacked inside of a mosque.
The IS claimed responsibility for the roadside bomb attack against a bus which belonged to a local TV station in Kabul on Saturday, which killed two employees of the station.
The attacks against the worshippers have increased in Afghanistan.
Last month, an unknown number of attackers had stormed a mosque in northern Parwan province and killed 11 worshipers and had also wounded several others.
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