Over 40 killed in two suicide attacks on Afghan mosques

More than 40 people were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up in two separate mosque attacks in Afghanistan today, officials said, in the latest violence to rock the country.


In the first attack, on a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, at least 32 people including women and children were killed and 41 others wounded when a lone suicide bomber blew himself up as worshippers gathered for evening prayer.

"Unfortunately this evening a suicide bomber detonated himself among the worshippers inside a mosque in Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul city," police spokesman Abdul Basir Mujahid said.

The interior ministry confirmed the toll of 32 dead and 41 wounded.
 [rte.ie]
 20/10/17