Jalalabad: At least three people were killed and 15 injured Friday with a blast at a mosque in the turbulent Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, a hospital official told AFP.
The explosion occurred in the Spin Ghar district in Eastern Province, a nest of activities of the Islamic State group since the Taliban seized power in the country in August.
“I can confirm the explosion during Friday prayers in the mosque in the Spin Ghar district.
There were victims and deaths,” Taliban officials told AFP.
“So far three were killed, 15 was injured,” a doctor at a local hospital told AFP.
The Afghan branch of the Islamic group, which first appeared in Nangarhar in 2015, has claimed responsibility for a series of bloody attacks in Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban.
One of the latest, in early November, a saw was a warrior to attack Kabul National Military Hospital, killing at least 19 people and injured more than 50.
More than 120 people were killed in an early year’s attack on two popular mosques with the ethnic minority of the Hazara community.