On October 15, local time, an explosion occurred in a Shiite mosque in kandahar city, Afghanistan, and foreign media quoted Afghan officials as saying that the explosion had killed at least 32 people and injured 45 others.
According to Reuters reported on the 15th, a Shiite mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, exploded on the same day, and people were gathering in the mosque at the time of the incident. Qari Saeed Khosti, a spokesman for the Taliban's interior ministry, said authorities were gathering details of the bombings. Nematullah Wafa, a former member of the provincial council, said the blast took place at the Imam Bargah mosque in the city of Kandahar. "At least 7 bodies and 13 wounded were taken away at the blast site, and the number of casualties is likely to increase." Wafa said.
Al Jazeera quoted kandahar provincial public health officials as saying on the 15th that the explosion has caused at least 32 deaths and 45 other injuries. Hospital sources told Al Jazeera that the local hospital was "overwhelmed with patients" and that they feared the eventual number of casualties would be high based on the number of injuries that were still increasing.
The report pointed out that no organization has expressed responsibility for the bombing.
According to previous reports, on October 8, a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killed dozens of people. It was the largest number of casualties in Afghanistan since the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August. The extremist group Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has declared itself responsible for the attack.
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