Mosque blast kills 15 in northern Afghanistan

09/06/2023

In this photo taken on May 25, 2023, Taliban-trained suicide bomber Ismail Ashuqullah sobs during an interview with AFP in Otarhi village in Tangi valley of Saydabad district, Maidan Wardak province. Ashuqullah regrets the missed opportunity to blow himself up at the height of the Afghan war, like many others from the lush green Tangi Valley. Families living in villages dotted along the mountainous region of south-eastern Afghanistan are proud of the cycle of young men sent to their deaths in the name of jihad against foreign forces. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) / To go with 'Afghanistan-Conflict-Suicide-Bombers', FOCUS by Estelle Emonet and Abdullah Hasrat

People run away after a bomb explosion during Fatiha prayers at the Nabawi mosque in the Hesa-e-Awal area of Fayzabad district, Badakhshan province on June 8, 2023. (Photo by Omer ABRAR / AFP)

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Islamabad

An explosion during a funeral service for a Taliban official killed this week ripped through a mosque on Thursday in the city of Faizabad in northern afghanistan, Afghan media reported.

The Afghan news channel TOLOnews, citing a local hospital, spoke of 15 dead and 50 injured.

The former Taliban police chief of Baghlan province, Safiullah Samim, is reported to be among the dead.

According to DPA information, senior Taliban officials may also have been killed.

According to Afghan media reports, the explosion occurred during a funeral prayer for the Taliban deputy governor of Badakhshan province, Mawlawi Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, who died on Tuesday in an attack.

A picture obtained by DPA is said to show the mosque after the attack.

Scraps of cloth soaked in blood and debris on the ground can be seen.

Another picture shows a large cloud of smoke visible from the street.

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09/06/2023