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| 6 killed as suicide bomber blows up near Shia mosque in Kabul |
| 2017-09-30 |
[DAWN] A jacket wallah posing as a shepherd went kaboom!near a Shia mosque in Kabul on Friday killing at least six people, police said, as Moslems prepare to observe the holy month of Muharram The attack in the north of the Afghan capital happened as worshipers were gathered inside Hussainia mosque, one of the biggest Shia centers in the city, for Friday prayers. "A suicide bomber who was grazing sheep has let 'er rip outside" the mosque, General Salim Almas, criminal investigative director of Kabul city, told AFP. Six people were killed and 16 maimed, Kabul deputy police chief Sadeq Muradi told AFP, but the health ministry put the corpse count at two and 10 maimed. Kabul's Emergency hospital tweeted that it had received 19 maimed including four children. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but fighters belonging to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the krazed killer Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group have repeatedly targeted the minority Shia community in recent years. |
| Posted by:Fred |