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KABUL: A blast tore through a mosque during Friday prayers in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, causing at least 20 casualties
The explosion hit the Mawlavi Sikandar mosque, provincial police spokesman Obaidullah Abedi told a news agency. Qari Badri, the commander of Kunduz province, said. 20 people had been killed or wounded in the blast. It was not clear who was behind the explosion.
Several blasts claimed by Islamic State hit the northern cities of Kunduz and Mazar-i-Sharif the previous day. One of them, at a mosque and another days earlier at a school in western Kabul, targeted the Shia minority.
The deadliest of three bombings on Thursday exploded inside a Shia mosque in northern Mazar-i-Sharif with at least 12 people killed and as many as 40 wounded.
Earlier Thursday, a roadside bomb exploded near a boys school in the Afghan capital of Kabul, injuring two children in the city’s predominately Shia neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi. A third bomb in Kunduz wounded 11 mechanics working for the Taliban.
Since sweeping to power last August, the Taliban has been battling the an ISIL affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province, which is proving to be an intractable security challenge.