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Taliban rejects Herat mosque bombing as casualties toll climbs to 93 people
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban...Arabic for students... group in Afghanistan has rejected role in a deadly suicide kaboom on a mosque in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan. A front man of the group Qari Yousuf Ahmadi has said the group has links with the attack on Jawadia mosque in Herat city. The local officials are saying that the corpse count from the deadly attack has climbed to at least 29 people while 64 others are maimed. Provincial governor’s front man Jilani Farhad said the attack was carried out by two jacket wallahs who initially started spraying the prayer participants with bullets before detonating their explosives. The attack on the mosque sparked furor among the local residents who also started to attack a check post located close to an area where the incident took place. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-03 |
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