ISIS Claims Responsibility for Terrorist Attack in Mosque in Kandahar | News from Germany on world events | DW

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A day after a bloody terrorist attack on a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, which killed at least 47 people and injured 70, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. The corresponding statement was released by the news agency Amaq, which is its mouthpiece, on the night of Saturday, October 16. As it says, two IS militants killed the guards of the mosque, after which they activated explosive devices among the believers gathered for prayer.

On Friday, the state news agency Bakhtar reported 32 dead. A spokesman for the Islamist Taliban in Kandahar province has updated this information, announcing an increase in the number of dead and wounded on Saturday.

As recently as last Friday, October 8, a suicide bomber blast at a Shiite mosque in the northern city of Kunduz killed more than 40 people and injured over 140. IS also claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Taliban seized power and declared their own government in Afghanistan in mid-August. The Islamic State, which is at war with the Taliban, has been operating in the country since 2015. IS considers Shia Muslims to be heretics and regularly attacks them. One of the largest attacks organized by IS in recent years was the bloody terrorist attack in August at the Kabul airport, organized during an international evacuation mission. Suicide bombings there right in the crowd killed almost 200 people.

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