Alwaght- At least 20 Afghan people were killed and over 40 injured after a deadly explosion targeted a mosque in north Kabul.
The attack took place in the Khair Khana neighborhood of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday, reports said.
Tolo News, Afghanistan's leading private news channel, quoted Kabul security department spokesman Khalid Zadran confirming that the blast occurred in police district (PD) 17 of Kabul.
He said security forces have arrived in the area, without giving more details.
Kabul's Emergency Hospital, a premier trauma center, in a tweet said it had received at least 27 people injured in the explosion, including 5 children, one of them 7-year-old.
A Twitter user claimed that today's attack killed among others a religious cleric, Amir Mohammad Kabuli, but the news has not been confirmed by the Taliban.
The user said Kabuli was a Sufi scholar and that the Daesh terrorist group was most likely behind the attack.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but local sources say it could be the handiwork of the Daesh terrorist group that has carried out many such attacks in recent months.
It comes two days after the first anniversary of the US withdrawal and the Taliban’s comeback in the war-ravaged country.
