At least 30 killed in Afghanistan mosque blast

By Bilal Guler, Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat

KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – A bomb blast hit a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province during Friday prayers, killing at least 30 people, an official confirmed.

Murtaza Zarifi, a security officer at the mosque, claimed the attack was carried out by two suicide bombers.

The explosion comes days after a suicide bomb attack claimed by the Daesh/ISIS terror group on a Shia mosque in the northern city of Kunduz, which killed 46 people.

*Writing by Seda Sevencan in Ankara