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Afghanistan: Blast at Kabul mosque kills more than 50 worshippers
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KABUL, 30 April 2022, (TON): A powerful explosion has killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque.
According to Besmullah Habib, the deputy spokesperson for the interior ministry “the blast hit the Khalifa Sahib mosque in the west of the capital in the early afternoon.”
The attack came as worshippers at the Sunni mosque gathered after Friday prayers for a congregation known as Zikr, an act of remembrance practised by some Muslims but seen as heretical by several Sunni groups.
Sayed Fazil Agha, the head of the mosque, said “someone they believed was a suicide bomber joined them in the ceremony and detonated explosives.”
He said “Black smoke rose and spread everywhere, dead bodies were everywhere.”
He added that his nephews were among the dead. “I survived, but lost my beloved ones.”
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