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Daesh claims responsibility for deadly bomb attack on Kunduz mosque

The Daesh-Khorasan claimed a deadly suicide bomb attack on Friday that hit a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz. In a statement released on its Telegram channels, the extremist group said that a Daesh suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest amid a crowd" of Shiite worshippers.

Reuters WORLD
Published October 08,2021
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Daesh [ISIS] has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a mosque in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, the group said on its Telegram channels.

The attack killed more than 50 people and wounded more than 140 inside the mosque, which is used by people from the minority Shi'ite Muslim community, according to Afghanistan's state-run Bakhtar news agency said.