A bombing at a mosque in the capital of Afghanistan Kabul during the evening prayer on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent ulama, said witnesses and police. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest to strike in the year since the Taliban seized power.The Islamic State Group’s Local Affiliate Has Stepped Up Attacks Targeting the Taliban and Civilians since US and NATO troops are in the final stages of their withdrawal from the country. Last week, claimed to be responsible for killing a prominent Taliban scholar at the Religious Center in Kabul.
According to eyewitnesses, a resident of the city environment Kher Khanna where the Siddquiya Mosque was targeted, the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber. The killed scholar was Mullah Amir Mohammad Kabuli, said witnesses, spoke on anonymous condition because he was not authorized to talk to the media. He added that more than 30 other people were injured. The Italian Emergency Hospital in Kabul said that at least 27 civilians were injured, including five children, taken there from the location of the bomb blast. Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the Taliban appointed to the Kabul Police Chief, confirmed the explosion in a mosque in North Kabul but would not give victims or damage to the dead and injured.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also condemned the explosion and swear that “such crimes will be immediately taken to court and will be punished.” Separately, the Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that they had arrested and killed Mehdi Mujahid in the West Herat Province when he tried to cross the border to Iran.Mujahid is a former Taliban commander in the Balkhab district in the North Sar-E-Pul Province, and the only member of the Shia Hazara minority community among the Taliban ranks. Mujahid has turned against the Taliban for the past year, after the decision opposed by the Taliban leaders in Kabul.
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