The explosive attack that ripped through the Seh Dokan mosque during midday prayers was claimed by Daesh.
KABUL: According to authorities, Taliban troops have apprehended a suspected Daesh militant who allegedly plotted a bomb assault on a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan, killing at least 12 worshippers.
Daesh has claimed responsibility for the bombing at the Seh Dokan mosque in Mazar-i-northern Sharif’s city during midday prayers on Thursday.
58 individuals were also injured in the attack.
Asif Waziri, the police spokesman for Balkh province, claimed Abdul Hamid Sangaryar was a key Daesh operative.
The explosive attack that ripped through the Seh Dokan mosque during midday prayers was claimed by Daesh.
KABUL: According to authorities, Taliban troops have apprehended a suspected Daesh militant who allegedly plotted a bomb assault on a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan, killing at least 12 worshippers.
Daesh has claimed responsibility for the bombing at the Seh Dokan mosque in Mazar-i-northern Sharif’s city during midday prayers on Thursday.
58 individuals were also injured in the attack.
Asif Waziri, the police spokesman for Balkh province, claimed Abdul Hamid Sangaryar was a key Daesh operative.
Waziri told AFP, “He was the mastermind of yesterday’s mosque attack.”
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Sangaryar, an Afghan national, was also arrested, according to the country’s interior minister.
“He had previously played a crucial role in various attacks and had frequently eluded capture, but this time we arrested him in a special operation,” Waziri said.
Daesh also claimed responsibility for a separate bombing in the northern city of Kunduz on Thursday, which killed four people and injured 18 others.
While worshippers celebrated Friday prayers in the holy month of Ramadan, Taliban authorities ramped up security around Kabul’s biggest mosques.
Gun-touting Hundreds of worshippers arriving at the capital’s Abdul Rahman mosque were subjected to body inspections by Taliban fighters, according to an AFP correspondent.
Even as the number of bombings has decreased since the Taliban seized power in August last year, Daesh has claimed responsibility for numerous assaults in Afghanistan, often against Shiite targets.
Shiite Afghans, who are largely from the ethnic Hazara community, account for 10% to 20% of the country’s 38 million population. They’ve been a target of Daesh for a long time, who regard them as heretics.
At least six people were murdered earlier this week in twin explosions at a boys’ school in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul.
So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the incident.
