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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 02:05 PM Aug 2022

Kabul mosque attack: 'Many casualties feared'

Last edited Wed Aug 17, 2022, 07:42 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: BBC

2 hours ago

A huge explosion has ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, police say.

The blast is thought to have occurred during evening prayers, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more, according to the NGO Emergency.

Khalid Zadran, the Taliban's Kabul police spokesman, was quoted by local media as saying there had been an explosion in the city's north-west.

Reports say the Siddiqi mosque's imam was among the dead.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62581102



EDIT: article updated at link

Original BBC headline: 'Many casualties feared ' in Kabul mosque blast

Related: Bombing at Kabul mosque kills 10, including prominent cleric (Associated Press)
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OneTotalMook

(44 posts)
3. Guess this guy missed the anniversary announcement this week.
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 02:53 PM
Aug 2022

We've been gone a year.. now you can go back to creating a paradise in the Hindu Kush.

progree

(10,864 posts)
4. "It is unclear who was behind the attack, ..."
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 03:04 PM
Aug 2022
It is unclear who was behind the attack, which comes the week after a prominent pro-Taliban cleric was killed in a suicide bomb blast, also in Kabul. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the earlier attack.

The BBC report doesn't say what kind of mosque (Shiite/Sunni/whatever).

muriel_volestrangler

(101,160 posts)
7. Sufi imam (this may have been added recently)
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 07:03 PM
Aug 2022
In the past month, three prominent religious leaders were targeted in Kabul and there were assassinations in other cities.

Last week it was Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, known to be close to the Taliban. This time it's Amir Muhammad Kabuli, said to be an adherent of the more moderate Sufi faith.

Turbineguy

(37,213 posts)
5. I wonder if parts of the US will become like Afghanistan.
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 04:11 PM
Aug 2022

Christo-fascists are unlikely to blow themselves up.

keithbvadu2

(36,371 posts)
6. "All the religious books have stated female education is permissible and obligatory, because,..."
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 05:27 PM
Aug 2022

"All the religious books have stated female education is permissible and obligatory, because,..."

He went against the evangelicals of his religion who have their own interpretations of their holy scripture.

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