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7 people, including child, killed in attack on Shia mosque in NW Afghanistan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Unknown assailants have reportedly killed at least seven people, including a child, in an attack on a Shia mosque in northwestern Afghanistan.

The country’s TOLOnews network and Aamaj news website reported the tragedy on Monday, citing local sources.

The reports specified the whereabouts of the attack as Guzara District in 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.

The attack targeted the Shia Moslems while they were saying their prayers inside the mosque.

The mosque’s imam is among the victims of the attack that also maimed a number of others.

The rulling Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 government and Herat's security officials are yet to pass any comments on the incident.

No person or group has grabbed credit for the assault so far.

A similar attack killed the same number of people, including two Shia holy mans and four women, targeting a rickshaw in Herat's thriving provincial capital of the same name back in December.

Shia Moslems form a minority in Afghanistan that is mostly drawn from the country’s Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
 community.

The community, the poorest of the country’s ethnic groups, accounts for about 22 percent of Afghanistan’s population. Its members have been targeted in several large-scale kidnappings and killings, including by the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
 terrorist group, across Afghanistan in the past.

Also last year, a bombing by the outfit targeted at a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing at least 31 worshipers and injuring more than 80 others.


Posted by: Fred 2024-04-30
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