KABUL (Pajhwok): A dozen people were killed and 20 others wounded when a bomb exploded inside a mosque during Friday’s prayers in Shakar Dara district of Kabul province, police said.
The blast took place at the Haji Bakhshi Mosque in the Muradbek Qala area in front of a police checkpoint, police spokesman Firdous Faramarz said.
He told Pajhwok Afghan News that 12 people, including the imam, Mufti Noman, were killed and 20 others were injured.
The nature of the blast was not immediately clear, he said.
But Shakardara district chief Gawhar Khan Babari said the blast was caused by . . .
