KABUL: Bomb blast tore the mosque during Friday prayers in North Afghanistan, killing 33 people including children, only the day after the ISIS group claimed two separate deadly attacks.
Because Taliban fighters confiscated Afghan’s control last year after expelling US-backed government, the number of bombings had fallen but the jihadists and Sunni continued the attack on the target they saw astray.
A series of bombings rocked this week, with deadly attacks targeting schools and mosques in the Shiite environment.
Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that children are among 33 deaths in an explosion on Friday at a mosque in Kunduz northern province.
“We condemn this crime … and reveal our deepest sympathy with grieving,” he said, adding 43 more injured.
An intelligence official said the anonymity requirements that the explosion was caused by a bomb, but it was not clear how it was blown up.
A AFP correspondent saw big holes exploding through the walls of the Mawperda Sikandar Mosque, popular with Sufi in the Imam Sahib district, north of Kunduz City.
One side of the mosque was fully destroyed by the explosion.
Jihadist groups such as ISIS bear deep hatred for the Sufi they consider to be a heretial and accuse them of the biggest polytheism in Islam – for seeking the intercession of the saints dead.
“The scenery in the mosque is terrible. Everyone who worshiped in the mosque was injured or killed,” Mohammad okah, a shopkeeper who helped the ferry victims to the district hospital, told the AFP news agency.
“I see 20 to 30 bodies,” another local resident said.
“Draft broken injury”
The victim’s relatives arrived at the local hospital to find their loved ones.
“My child is Martyred,” shouted a man, while a woman was accompanied by four children looking for her husband.
A nurse told AFP by telephone that between 30 to 40 people had been accepted for the wound treatment from the explosion.
Around a dozen ambulances carry a severe injured to the main provincial hospital in Kunduz City.
“Draft injury to the body of the injured performances was caused by a bomb blast,” a doctor at the Provincial Hospital told AFP.
Blast Friday is one of the biggest attacks since the Taliban seized power on August 15 last year.
The deadly one was a few days later when more than 100 Afghan civilians and 13 US soldiers were killed in a suicide attack at Kabul Airport because tens of thousands tried to escape from the country.
ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.
Regional is a branch in Sunni-the majority of Afghanistan has repeatedly targeted Shiites and minorities such as Sufi, which follows the mystical Islamic branches.
Isis is a Sunni Islamic group like the Taliban, but both are bitter rivals.
The biggest ideological difference between the two is that the Taliban only asks Afghanistan which is free from foreign forces, while ISIS wants the Islamic Caliphate which stretches from Turkey to Pakistan and so on.
Isis claimed the bombing at the Shia mosque in the northern city of Mazar-I-Sharif on Thursday which killed at least 12 people and injured 58. Taliban said they had caught the “mastermind” of the attack.
They also claimed separate attacks in Kunduz City on Thursday, which killed four people and injured 18.