Kandahar / Afghanistan: The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing against the Shiite Mosque in Kandahar City in South Afghanistan which killed at least 41 people and more injured.
Friday’s attack came only a week after the attack claimed by Shiites in a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz which killed more than 60 people.
In a statement released on his telegram channel, the Jihadist group said two Islamic suicide bombs (IS-K) carried out separate attacks on various parts of the mosque in Kandahar – Heartland Spiritual Taliban – while worshipers pray deeply.
Groups, bitter rivals from the Islamic Movement of the Taliban Sunni Islamist, who swept back to Afghanistan in August when the United States and its allies withdrew, consider Shia Muslims as a heretial.
Extrac company-based conflict analysis company said the Friday attack was the first by Is-K in Kandahar, and the massacre of the fourth mass victims since the Taliban took Kabul.
Extrac researcher Abdul Sayed told AFP the attack was “challenging Taliban claims in control in the country.
If the Taliban cannot protect the kandahar from the IS-K attack, how can it protect the entire country?” In the mosque, after the explosion, the walls were pocked with bullets and volunteers swept debris in the painted prayer hall.
Debris lying in the entrance corridor.
After the explosion, the Chief of Police Kandahar Maulvi Mehmood said, “The brutal attack has been witnessed at the Shiite Mosque as a result of which a large number of our countries have lost their lives”.
In a video statement, Mehmood said security for the mosque was provided by guards from the Shia community but for then the Taliban would be responsible for his protection.
Hafiz Abdulhai Abbas, Health Director for Kandahar, told AFP 41 people have been killed by around 70 who were injured, according to hospital information.
At least 15 ambulances look rushed to and from the scene, as the Taliban Security Cordoned from the area.
“We are overwhelmed,” a doctor at the Central Mirwais Hospital City told AFP.
“There are too many bodies and injured people who are taken to our hospital.
We expect more to come.
We really need blood.
We have asked all local media in Kandahar to ask people to come and donate blood.” Eyewitnesses talked about shots with the explosion, and a security guard assigned to protect the mosque said three of his friends had been shot when bombers fought with them.
Sayed Rohullah told AFP: “It was Friday prayer time, and when we were preparing I heard a shot.
Two people have entered the mosque.” They have fired the guards and in response to the guards also opened fire on them.
One of them did a suicide explosion in the mosque.
“Another bomb was blown up in a crowded area outside the main building, he and other witnesses said.” We are sad to know that the explosion occurred in a Shiite brotherhood mosque in Indonesia.
The first district of Kandahar City where a number of our martyr and injured colleagues, “spokesman for the Taliban Interior Ministry Tweeted Qari Sayed Khosti.
A spokesman for the US State Department, the price of Ned Washington condemned the attack and repeated a call for” Taliban to live for a commitment has been made for counterterrorism, and specifically to take a common threat we face from Isis-k “.” We are determined to see it that there is no group …
can again use Afghan land as bearing the launch of attacks in the United States or other countries.
“The UN mission in Afghanistan in a tweet also condemned” the last atrocity targeting religious institutions and worshipers “.” Those responsible must be held to be taken into account.
“Taliban, who controls Afghanistan after overthrowing US-backed government, has its own history to persecute Shia.
But the administration led by the new Taliban has vowed to stabilize the country, and after the Kunduz attack promises to protect the Shia minority now living under his rule.
Shia is estimated Redeeming about 10 percent of the Afghan population.
Many of them are Hazara, an ethnic group that has been persecuted in Afghanistan for decades.
In October 2017, a suicide striker attacked the Shiite Mosque in the West Kabul, killing 56 people and wounding 55.