KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) A series of explosions across Afghanistan on Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more, according to police and hospital officials.
A powerful explosion in a Shiite Muslim mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed at least 10 worshippers and injured another 40, according to a hospital official.
While no one took responsibility for either attack, the bombings had all the hallmarks of a deadly Islamic State affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or IS-K
Many people are feared dead and at at least 65 are reportedly injured after a blast at at a mosque in Afghanistan s Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday afternoon, news agency Reuters reported, quoting a local Talibani commander.
Dozens have been killed or injured in Afghanistan in the second attack on a Shiite target in Afghanistan in three days. A bomb blast hit the mosque as worshipers were praying during the holy month of Ramadan.